#shaped

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#am #anyone #come #gave #growing

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#guess #i #music #older #real

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

— James Russell Lowell

#example #impulse #life #person #precept

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. ↗

— Paul de Man

#alone #ashes #behind #fashion #fire

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#each #other #reality #shaped #thinkers

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#ahead #been #believing #business #finances

Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#african #american #american culture #arrived #became

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#human #men #needs #regulated #serve

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#get #grandmother #how #i #identify

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#actions #acts #creation #dream #dreams