Taught Quotes · Page 10

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can…

— Herbert Hoover

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I…

— Jon Scieszka

Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.

— Michael Jackson

I use rosewater a lot. I don't remember who taught me that, but that's my number one thing that I always use…

— Nina Agdal

I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and…

— Eve Ensler

I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family…

— Aubrey Plaza

I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else,…

— Zinedine Zidane

There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they…

— Carl Sagan

Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.

— Emma Watson

I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of…

— Lady Gaga

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

— Sam Palladio

In society, you are taught to belong. You have to belong to something.

— Richard Cabral

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

— Ken Dodd

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

— Tom Hayden

If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear…

— Jeff Cooper

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could…

— Cristin Milioti

I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to…

— Sandra Bullock

one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being…

— Dervla Murphy

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

— Mary McCarthy

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

— Fred Rogers

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early…

— Dick Gephardt

People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of…

— Liberace

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

— Natalie Massenet