Sharon Creech Quotes

People are shaped in myriad ways by their upbringing and family. We also have agency in our lives, the people we become, and the lives we lead.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you need to decide - who do you want to be?

We're all products of our own environment.

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.

As you get older, you realise that your identity becomes more important - the environment in which you have grown is actually part of who you are just as much as your family or your school.

Everyone is a product of their own environment, and that, I think, has actually been the key lesson for me.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

Nature only goes so far. Nurture, what you raised on and what you ingest as a youngster, it really affects you when you grow up in really subtle, long drawn-out ways. And to find that, to hear that thing again all those years later and to realize that was the source, it's like, "What else has me twisted?" So now I'm going back to robots and cartoons; I go back to all this to see what got me the way that I am.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were - that I kind of caught up in a hurry.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.