Quotes About Molding

We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.

One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it's molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting. And I really, really hate incredibly long shoes, where the last is very pointy, almost like Aladdin.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.

Every time he calls, I nag him to study." "I hear that boys don't like to be nagged." "Me too, but it's irresistible. You always want to take the boy and mold him into something better.

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.

Don't lose them," Mrs. Fang said. "They're expensive as hell." The fangs had been purchased from a cut-rate dentist open to interesting trades in exchange for services rendered. They had given him an antique quilt from the Civil War, which had been in Mr. Fang's family for years, and had received, after their molding and fitting, four sets of fangs, snap-fit dentures that would go over their actual teeth and could be reused for years.

Between God's promises in our life and the palace of our divine purpose is always the process that molds us into the person we need to be to stay seated in the palace.

There is a possessiveness in the idealist's attitude . . . . "You are to be like me. I will shape you, or hammer you, into the shape of my ideal. You must enjoy my pleasures. Your tastes must coincide with mind. You must have only my values. You must be restricted by my limitations

He was a ferocious man. He had been ill-made in the making. He had not been born right, and he had not been helped any by the molding he had received at the hands of society. The hands of society are harsh, and this man was a striking sample of its handiwork. He was a beast - a human beast, it is true, but nevertheless so terrible a beast that he can best be characterized as carnivorous.

They were his environment, these men, and they were moulding the clay of him into a more ferocious thing than had been intended by Nature. Nevertheless, Nature had given him plasticity. Where many another animal would have died or had its spirit broken, he adjusted himself and lived, and at no expense of the spirit.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Men are born, and then they're formed.

Reality is what we make it. Or what is made for us by the companies we keep. It is our clay from which we fashion ourselves.

My little one's only 12 and I miss seeing him grow up and trying to form him and mould him the way I'd like him to him to turn out, which is something like his dad!

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

We can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us.