Formative Quotes

67 quotes by 64 authors

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend… — Joss Stone
You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years. — Todd Edwards
A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it… — Newton D. Baker
I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but… — Rudolf Steiner
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations,… — Jawaharlal Nehru
I know of a few multimillionaires who started trading with inherited wealth. In each case, they lost it all because they didn't feel the pain… — William Eckhardt
You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what… — Paul McCartney
I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless. — Roseanne Barr
I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing. For me, it's… — Madonna Ciccone
The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative. — Viggo Mortensen
I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade… — Viggo Mortensen
My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling. — Carre Otis
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at… — Jane Smiley
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative. — Robert Winston
Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state,… — John Gresham Machen
I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I… — Roger Bannister
I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments. — Joseph DeRisi
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it… — Tom Hanks
I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things… — Bill Parcells
My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years.… — Daphne Oz

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