Virgil Quotes

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

The child is father of the man.

What is learned in youth is carved in stone.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

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.'

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

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.

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

I have been blessed with a family, mother especially, who started buying me fancy shoes from the time I took baby steps.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

We can understand both our nature and our nurture, but understanding is only the first step.