Top 242 Formative Quotes & Sayings

That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

I love the Zucker brothers' films - 'Airplane!,' 'Top Secret' and 'Police Squad!' - are my formative experiences.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive.

The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.

Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

Probably the most formative thing was at the age of four my Granddad took me fishing. That actually became a major part of the rest of my life.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but it was a really formative moment in my life and in my career.

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.

Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

People of Maharashtra are close to my heart, and this is where I became who I am, and this has been instrumental in my formative years.

During Manmohan Singh's formative years, it was a matter of great pride to be called to the Indian Civil Service for serving the Empire.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

Most of my formative years were in Chandigarh.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

The Lampoon was definitely quite formative. You know there's a crazy like kind of network of comedy writers from The Lampoon that are, that kind of you know like Seinfeld and The Simpsons and a lot of shows kind of had a lot of kind of Lampoon writers and so that was very formative. I mean, to me I got interested in comedy writing at an early like reading like Dave Barry.

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

My formative years were not spent in Hyderabad, so I can only understand Telugu, but I love the culture.

The time for me in the Peace Corps was easily the most formative experience I've had in my life.

As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

A formative cookbook for me was Nigella Lawson's 'How to Eat.' Its warm, conversational tone is wonderful.

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

The biographies of the great rarely report much about the nanny, but for many, she will have played a crucial role in their formative years.

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Middle school students are at a critical time in their lives when making good choices matters - the decisions they make in these formative years have an impact on their future success.

During our formative years, it was all about, 'What did Metallica do?' and 'How do we do that?' and then you try and find an identity of your own, but they're still... They were the pioneers and the trailblazers.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

I came up during the formative years of TV.

I've had such an inspiring and formative journey in my career.

I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.

In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.

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.

I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.'

When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.

My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.

My formative years were in Jersey and I'm kind of Jersey at heart.

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

I was a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.' That was a pretty formative film for me growing up. It really got my sci-fi juices flowing, as it were.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.