We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a… — Milton R. Hunter Copy Share Image
“Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I was always taught that a woman's place was in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. And I'm a firm believer in that. — Jeff Jarrett Copy Share Image
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can… — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Copy Share Image
My parents always told me to stay away from trouble. When I moved away from them at a young age, I was… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee,… — William Law Copy Share Image
One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!" — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I'm on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me was Muhammad Ali.… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
