Penny Junor Quotes

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

How I was raised is what I am today.

Children learn what they live.

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

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.

The child is father of the man.

Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

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.

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 little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.