Taught famous quotes

Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.
-- Abbi Glines

#Heart #Guy #Taught

Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.
-- Abby May Alcott

#Girl #Taught #Hotel

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Thinking #Catholic #Taught

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Teaching #Taught

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
-- Adam Carolla

#Boxing #Taught

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
-- Adam Johnson

#Loyalty #Taught

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
-- Adam Jones

#Self #Taught #Classical Music

After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
-- Adoniram Judson

#Christian #Baptism #Taught

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
-- Adrienne Rich

#Life #Poetry #Taught

I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.
-- Agnes Denes

#School #Self #Taught

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people
-- Ahmed H. Zewail

#Father #People #Taught

Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.
-- Al Unser, Jr.

#Dad #Taught

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
-- Alan Dundes

#Years #Identity #Taught

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
-- Alan Paton

#St Francis Of Assisi #Use #Taught

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
-- Alan Paton

#Taught #Expect Nothing #Results

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
-- Alan Watts

#Common Sense #Culture #Taught

Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.
-- Alane Ferguson

#Skins #Taught #Tissues

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
-- Albert Camus

#Doctors #Suffering #Taught

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
-- Albert Einstein

#Science #Discovery #Taught

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count
-- Albert Einstein

#Taught

Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it.
-- Albert Einstein

#Astrology #Body #Taught

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.
-- Albert Ellis

#Hate #Self #Taught

We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.
-- Albert Mohler

#Christian #People #Taught

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
-- Alexander Pope

#Men #Taught

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
-- Alexander Pope

#Heaven #Taught #Spires

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
-- Alexander Pope

#Life #Affliction #Taught

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.
-- Alexander Wang

#Class #Patterns #Taught

Clancy had taught me well.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Taught #Wells

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
-- Alice Walker

#Parent #Culture #Taught

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
-- Ally Sheedy

#Hands #Experience #Taught

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
-- Alvin Dark

#Lasts #Taught #Lord

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.
-- Alyson Hannigan

#Mom #Thinking #Taught

I was always taught to be hungry and humble.
-- Amari Cooper

#Humble #Taught #Hungry

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#School #Numbers #Taught

Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Bird #Might #Taught

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.
-- Amin Maalouf

#Writing #Taught

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.
-- Amy Grant

#Reading #Home #Taught

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
-- Amy Hempel

#Writing #Interesting #Taught

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.
-- Amy Jo Johnson

#Mom #Dream #Taught

It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.
-- Amy Poehler

#Sorry #Years #Taught

Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.
-- Amy-Jill Levine

#Jesus #Responsibility #Taught

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.
-- Andrew Eldritch

#People #Looks #Taught

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.
-- Angie Stone

#Winning #Never Quit #Taught

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.
-- Anna Louise Strong

#Purpose #Taught #Oppression

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.
-- Anna Torv

#Mother #Self Confidence #Taught

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.
-- Anne Heche

#People #Taught #Ruffles

[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.
-- Anne Lamott

#Mother #Minorities #Taught

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Baby #Father #Taught

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
-- Annie Leibovitz

#People #Taught #Helpful

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Character #Skills #Taught

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
-- Anthony Kennedy

#Democracy #Generations #Taught

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.
-- Ariel Sharon

#Holocaust #Taught #Lessons

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
-- Aristotle

#Art #Lying #Taught

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
-- Arno Allan Penzias

#Taught #Students #Feels

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.
-- Arnold Ross

#Men #Taught #Students

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Training #Mind #Taught

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
-- Arthur Keith

#Jesus #Taught #Birth

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
-- Arthur W. Pink

#Errors #Taught

Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte

#Feelings #Taught #Emotion

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Rats #Taught #Said

Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your heart.
-- Babar Ahmad

#Heart #Taught #Prison

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.
-- Barry Long

#Taught #Ready #Persons

The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
-- Barry S. Strauss

#Humility #Games #Taught

Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.
-- Bear Grylls

#Giving #Way #Taught

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
-- Benjamin Barber

#Taught #Students #Life Is

We are taught words, not ideas.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Education #Ideas #Taught

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Teacher #Learning #Taught

Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.
-- Bernard Baruch

#Lying #Evil #Taught

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
-- Bernard Berenson

#Life #Quality #Taught

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
-- Bernard Malamud

#Suffering #Taught #Uselessness

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Long #Branches #Taught

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.
-- Beth Moore

#Journey #Looks #Taught

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
-- Bil Keane

#Art #Taught #Homework

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
-- Bill Walton

#Basketball #Thinking #Taught

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
-- Billy Graham

#Taught #Grows

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
-- Blaise Pascal

#Philosophical #Men #Taught

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.
-- Bob Dylan

#Song #Taught #Folks

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.
-- Bob Dylan

#Education #Taught #Streets

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.
-- Bobby Fischer

#Moving #Chess #Taught

Let go of your past, but never forget what it has taught you.
-- Boonaa Mohammed

#Letting Go #Past #Taught

Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money.
-- Bruce Kovner

#Mistake #Next #Taught

I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality
-- Bruce R. McConkie

#Teaching #Church #Taught

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Hate #Taught

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Single Life #Important #Taught

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Majesty #Way #Taught

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.
-- C.J. Sansom

#Moon #Taught #Corruption

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.
-- Carl Rogers

#Essence #Western Culture #Taught

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.
-- Carl Sagan

#Reading #Taught #Slavery

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Time #Too Much #Taught

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.
-- Carlos Slim

#Pay #Matter #Taught

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Discipline #Taught #Emotion

My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.
-- Caroline Wozniacki

#Parent #Taught

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.
-- Carrie Vaughn

#Father #Worry #Taught

In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.
-- Carter G. Woodson

#School #Black #Taught

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
-- Carter G. Woodson

#Black #Taught #Black People

Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.
-- Catherine Ponder

#Expectations #Mind #Taught

He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones

#Differences #Taught #Whiskey

JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Mother #Taught #Appreciated

My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
-- Charles Lamb

#Book #Looks #Taught

You are not you, you are just reflections, you are reflections of everything that you think you know, everything that you have been taught.
-- Charles Manson

#Reflection #Thinking #Taught