Shaped Quotes

I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

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

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

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

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

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

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.