We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
Alfred Adler

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
Ralph Nader

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
Emma Goldman

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
Carter G. Woodson

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz Kafka

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Franz Kafka

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
Thomas Friedman

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
Christopher Walken

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Mike Krzyzewski

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
Mike Krzyzewski

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Gore Vidal

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Gore Vidal

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Gore Vidal

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
Jon Bon Jovi

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl