Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.
—Haim Ginott
Because children see parents as authority figures and gods, they think that the way you treat them is the way they deserve to be treated: “What you say about me is what I am” is a literal truth to your child. Consequently, when children are treated with respect, they conclude that they deserve respect and hence develop self-respect.
—Stephanie Marston
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
—Henry Adams
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
—Marcus Brigstocke
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
—Henry Drummond
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet.
—Mary Kay Blakely
It's been a lifelong problem of mine that those I've been closest to are the ones I've had the least influence on. My parents, my sister, my wife, even my cat—or maybe I should say especially my cat—have never really taken me seriously. That may help to explain why I finished up making a career of peddling my thoughts to the world in general. At least the world in general doesn't automatically dismiss anything coming from me, that is, so long as I say it in a neat epigram of 17 words or less.
—Ashleigh Brilliant