#influence

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. ↗

— John McGahern

#catholic #catholic church #christianity #church #class

However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#any #asked #congo #council #course

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#because #been #city #cosmopolitan #creole

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#everything #i #i think #influences #life

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#board #buy #get #hybrid #i

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#fact #good #hand #influence #ireland

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#british #came #guitar #heavy #heavy metal

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions. ↗

— Graham Nash

#everything #generally #happens #influenced #living

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#before #begins #born #hereditary #history

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#butler #eliot #great #i #influence