my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
My mother knew if you bought a couple of really good architectural outfits and put your money into accessories, you could create… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And,… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Greedo taught me a lot. I don't say that about every artist. Some artists might teach me stuff musically, but Greedo taught… — Kenny Beats Copy Share Image
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these…We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think love is one of those things that it's only really bad because it was once good. You can't miss something… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it… — Rachel Cusk 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
Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study 'Breaking Free', He taught me to look for a common… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad,… — Liz Tuccillo Copy Share Image
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
