Quotes About Impressionable

I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct.

When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

You are timid and vengeless. When you first saw that word you were in short pants and numberless words in the books you read were strange and thrilling.

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels.

Many of us were taught a vision of God as Tormentor when we were small, impressionable children, and it got deposited in the lowest part of our brain stems, like all traumatic injuries do.

At four years of age children accept without surprise that which is daily paraded before their eyes

The Great God of the Deserts, the God from the Void, sequestered himself many hundreds of years ago. His worshippers had too many competing views of his nature, and it unsettled his mind. That's a thing that can happen to gods. They're very impressionable.

Was she the same person to-night as last night? Was she two persons? If she was only one, which one? Or was she a mere vessel of receptiveness, a transparent vessel into which other people poured their view of her, and she instantly reflected the exact colour of their opinion?

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

I was always goofing around. I suppose having a father who was an actor made you think that it was a real possibility as a career.

My earliest memory is trying to read Beatrix Potter, and the words were literally jumping off the page.

As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.

When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

El inteligente pobre es un observador mucho más fino que el rico inteligente. El pobre mira a su alrededor a cada paso que da, espía suspicazmente cada palabra que oye a las gentes que encuentra; a cada paso que da él mismo impone a sus pensamientos y sus sentimientos un deber, una norma. Tiene el oído fino, es impresionable, es un hombre experimentado, su alma tiene quemaduras.

Give me the man until he is seven, as Nietzsche said.

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Our subconscious mind is like a little kid who doesn't know any better and, not coincidentally, receives most of its information when we're little kids and don't know any better (because our frontal lobes, the conscious part of our brains, hasn't fully formed yet).