In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money. — Irving Kahn Copy Share Image
I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels. — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to… — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144) — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image