25 Quotes About Nature-vs-nurture

There are ribbons that ensnare, itseems, though I cannot feel theserestraints: a tangle of sharedunderstandings, expectations, values,and obligations that demarcate sentientboundaries and frame the articulationof essence. Yet, there is also something rather arbitrary and inadequate aboutthese ribbons and their juxtaposition.

Sandra stood by, quietly amused: she wore a sugar pink track suit with matching plastic hairslides in the shape of elephants. Edward could see quite clearly behind her shoulder, like the aura visible to spiritualists, the woman she would be in thirty years time. There is probably nothing to be done about people, he thought, nothing at all, nor ever has been: processed, from the cradle to the grave. Most neither know nor care, which makes it worse.

We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Babies are never suicidal. Hard lives, not hard boiled eggs do that.

She's a she-wolf. Her nature demands she's dominated, even if she tries to fight it. She'll listen to an amount of force – positive force, not negative force. But leave the run wide open with no boundaries and she won't listen to you at all. All she'll listen to is the call of freedom, even if it leads her straight into a trap. Stop thinking like a human. She's a wolf.

No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

History and man made each other.