Quotes About Impressionable

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Man is the Child of his Environment

All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.

Children are like wet cement. What is modeled for them imprints their character. —Max

No amount of parental protectiveness could overcome the fact that she was very ready to be dazzled.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

When you're young, influences count.

I'm very impressionable: I get very taken away by stories and certain feelings. With writing, sometimes I want to feel like a character.

There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

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

Çocuklar?nki gibi duyarl? bünyelerde her tutku balmumuna bas?lm?? gibi iz b?rak?r.

That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

I remember what it feels like to be fourteen or sixteen, to have the world folded out in front of you, and to have a million choices ahead. I also remember what it feels like to be so open and impressionable and to want something so badly it's impossible to see that maybe it isn't the best thing for you.

Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.

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

I do beg your pardon, sir, but when a gentleman like you behaves inappropriately- leading an impressionable young lady to believe there is some genuine affection between you- that gentleman must accept the consequences of his actions.

I hardly think it wise to put the idea of flying into the heads of impressionable teenagers who are already battling the challenges of lunacy.

I probably saw 'Jaws' when I was 10.

Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and impressionable, I think I infected them with my pun virus. They grew to enjoy puns, think puns, just as much as me. The problem is people don't really like puns any more, so I worry I've rendered the poor fuckers virtually unemployable.