Quotes About Impressionable

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior.

Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

Creation is quite impressionable. Everyone leaves a trail of their actions. And everyone, however wise, however powerful, however immortal, makes mistakes. All it requires is the patience to wait for them. And you'll find no one, in all Creation, quite so patient as Death.

As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.

I feel more pressure when I'm writing for teens. I'm very aware that my audience is impressionable. Therefore, I'm far more careful about what I say and the language I use.

When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.

Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was so soft there was no resistance. Hard things sank into her, they went right through her, and if she made a real effort, out the other side. Then she didn't have to see them or hear them, or even touch them.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.

I saw a lot of movies that I probably shouldn't have seen. I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon' when I was in first grade - that kind of thing.

I'm gullible.

I was so gullible as a kid.

Little kid see a cartoon character with a gun, he going to want to carry a gun, right?

I feel like kids naturally love guns, so I was drawn to that.

Bad habits can easily be formed when you're younger.

They are but children.

The plain shiprock walls, and the painted statue of Lord Pas (from which the paint was peeling) will remain with me until the day I die, always somewhat colored by the wonder I felt as a small boy at seeing a black cock struggling in the old man's hands after he had cut its throat, its wings beating frantically, beating as if they might live after all, live somehow somewhere, if only they could spray the whole place with blood before they

Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won't keep shape