68 Formative Quotes for You to Enjoy

I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. I. M. Pei

Life Me Architecture Seventeen Seventeen Years Background Say Studied Came Years Western America Formative Technical

I was a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.' That was a pretty formative film for me growing up. It really got my sci-fi juices flowing, as it were. Jack Reynor

Me Runner Pretty Blade Blade Runner Sci-Fi Got Were Juices Huge Up Huge Fan Fan Formative Really Growing Growing Up Film Flowing

The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer to stay open to the memories of that period because they were so formative. Jacqueline Woodson

Me Memories Important Think Say Stay Writer Open Between Period Because Were Huge Happens Formative Conscious

I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage. James Laughlin

Love Great You People Great Deal Stage Think Thomas Williams Case Pound True Re-Read Liked Most Call Read Deal Cam Formative To Love Might Certainly Whom Things

The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you. Jane Goldman

You Stay Always Years Encounter Formative Your Things

We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life. Janet Reno

Life Time Reward Three First Year Punishment Response Percent Develop Most Concept Learn Learned Understand Got Years Person Human Formative Ages Zero Conscience

Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old. John Burroughs

Life Age Youth Sunshine Old Heights Find Spirit Something Emerson Voice Prophet He Spokesman Idealistic Him Does Leave His Gets Formative Which Ever Grows Early Early Life

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures. John Carpenter

You Learning Films Saw Kid Favorite Favorite Films Favorites See Stays More Emotional Generally Powerful Categories Pictures Category Because Motion Motion Pictures Years Forever Craft Different Anything Formative Which While Really Means Your Second Two

My formative years would be in South Central Los Angeles. It was a really volatile environment, but, I always say, when you're living in the hood, you don't live this life where you're crying every day, downtrodden every day. John Singleton

Life Day You Every Day Live Living Every Say Hood Would Would-Be Angeles Volatile Environment Crying Always Los Los Angeles Years South Where Formative Central Really

I have had my share of choices and temptations, too; I would not lie about that. And I would also like to confess that had it not been for my mother, I would probably have never been able to make the right decisions during those formative years of my life. Karan Patel

Life Lie Mother My Life Too Those Would Able About Temptations Never Had Share Like Also Make Been Years Confess Formative Decisions Choices Right Right Decisions

In my formative years, when I was a little kid, I'd get out of elementary school, and because my mother worked as a nurse, I'd have to find a way to get a ride to the high school and watch my dad's team practice. Kelvin Sampson

Ride School Mother Practice Nurse Way Kid Out High Find High School Because Years Get Formative Little Worked Little Kid Team Dad Elementary Elementary School Watch

As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those years leave deep marks; in that way, the stakes of childhood are inherently very high. Laura van den Berg

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile. Lina Wertmuller

Me Reading Young Imbecile Astaire Ran See Also Gordon Read Still Were Been Rogers Flash Formative

In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way. Lynn Nottage

Relationship You Learning World School Face Consider Books Distant Way Ways Harsh Those Face-To-Face Direct Most Because Came Years Lectures Very Formative Realities Many Amnesty

I was perhaps lucky to be born in a single-parent home where my mother, Shirin Mohammed Ali, was the sole figure I revered. My father's absence in my life in my formative years exposed me to only one person, who was my source of learning the lessons of life. So to me, listening to a woman and her worldly view is almost automatic. Mahesh Bhatt

Life Home Me Learning Woman Mother Listening Father My Life Worldly Ali Sole Born Only Absence Almost Perhaps Revered Source Years Person Where Automatic Formative Mohammed View Figure Who Exposed Lessons Lucky Her

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic. Mark Ruffalo

Mom Family Me You Edge Big Enough Kid Gigantic Brother Uncles Had Part Wisconsin Feels Most Around Cousins Aunts Lot Up Forest Sisters Did Grew Formative Grow Grow Up

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time. Matthew Rhys

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme. Max Winkler

I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me. Michael Lee-Chin

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned. Muhtar Kent

Business World Father Important Living Critically All-Around Diplomat Rather Count He Him Comfortable Around Than Model Role Person Role Model Wherever Formative While Working Business Person Assigned

I definitely was inspired by drama teachers in high school named Mr. Walsh and Ms. O'Neil, and both of them were very formative in helping me sort of understand theater. But I think my biggest inspiration is that I was a high school drama teacher in real life for four years in the Bronx. Natasha Rothwell

Life Teacher Me School Real Life Think Drama Definitely High Bronx High School Both Inspiration Inspired Named Sort Understand Real Were Years Very Biggest Formative Theater Them Teachers Helping Four

The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other things, they established a long-standing pattern of dealing with foreign policy problems through armed interventions and also inspired the iconic phrase 'the shores of Tripoli' in the Marine Corps hymn. Nick Turse

Problems Marine Corps Fighting Other Corps States Battles Has-Been Phrase Hymn Inspired Through Long-Standing Since Days Armed Also Policy Dealing Foreign Foreign Policy Been Pirates Shores Established African Formative Republic Pattern Iconic United United States Among Things Early Early Days Marine

I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there. Patrick deWitt

Time Good Home Age Negative Young Teenage Teenage Years Consider Spend Valley Spent All-Around Pretty Angeles Proper Through Adulthood Until Around Los Los Angeles Years Ultimately Up Did Anymore Formative Amount

Formative Quotes

No more formative quotes