To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my…

“I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands- hands that created the world surrendered to…

— Anonymous

“My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy.…

— Tahir Shah

“My father told us stories about our ancestors and about the city and how we should act. He told us that the four sins…

— Ida Pruitt

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

— Alan Cohen

“Someone says that I haven’t taught him anything that he can remember. He can’t understand yet that that’s precisely what I am aiming at…”

— Idries Shah

“I try to shed what I’ve learned, I try to forget the way I was taught to remember”

— Fernando Pessoa

I remember what they taught to me, remember condescending talk of who I ought to be, remember listening to all of this and that…

— Linkin Park

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for…

— Beyonce Knowles

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary…

— Faye Wattleton

I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.

— Nick Nolte

I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

— Buddy Ebsen

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

— Esai Morales

My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge…

— Tupac Shakur

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green