Boyd Rice Quotes

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

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

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

What Dad's taught me is that life doesn't end when you get to be in your 70s and your 80s, and he has a philosophy of life that just - 'What more can I do? How can I help?'

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

'Trill' is a combination of 'true' and 'real.' It's my philosophy.

Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

I have a philosophy, folks, and it's based on my own life. I'm using my own life experiences to philosophize about things in general. It has to do with desire.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School.

Lessons learned in the home, last the longest.

The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.