Childhood Shaping Quotes

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.

Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.