Lucy Dacus Quotes

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity's faith later.

I, for one, believe TV is something you can do without - it colours the way you look at things and people. It's not the best exposure for children, growing up.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

I think I got my education as a young boy from things I saw on TV.

I don't know if I trust entertainment to teach anyone anything.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

Films do have a very big impact on the youth, but the youth do have the quality to differentiate what is right and what is wrong!