Influence of Environment Quotes

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.

I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.

I feel like, If I would have lived in my hometown, I probably would have gotten in a lot more trouble. I was just in places where I could have gotten in trouble. I skateboarded a lot, just getting into the wrong stuff. I could've just hung out with the wrong friends.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay

We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.