Katherine Ryan Quotes

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

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.

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

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

Your past always leads to who you are.

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

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

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

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

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.

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!

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

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 learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.