My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful… — Celia Imrie Copy Share Image
My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught… — Rafael Palmeiro Copy Share Image
When the 'Book of Mormon' was first published, some of those who believed in it taught it to others and testified of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life,… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
[Kyle Chandler] taught me how to listen very well and reacting. There's a lot of improv. And to be able to do… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
Actually, Bruce [Springsteen] taught me about introspection. I think that's an incredible gift. I can really look inside myself. And you know… — Julianne Phillips Copy Share Image
For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years. — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
The light of the Lord's transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We Jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. While the naive Americans… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you. — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
I finally had my prostate checked. And I was super-thankful that I taught my asshole to whistle before the doctor stuck his… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I've experienced the highest of highs and been in every single position, and that has taught me so much. — Drew McIntyre Copy Share Image
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
If I have taught my sons anything in life, it is to have integrity - to always tell the truth, and I… — Leonard N. Stern Copy Share Image
Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should… — Ira Remsen Copy Share Image
My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Tragedy, loss, and hurt often arrive unanticipated. How we react when we are surprised will tell our families whether what we have… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work. — Ben Vereen Copy Share Image
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image