Taught Quotes · Page 59

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.

— Stephen Sprouse

I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.

— Joe E. Lewis

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

— Idries Shah

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose…

— Eugene Delacroix

I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it…

— Attia Hosain

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

— Arthur Symons

The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

— Timothy Keller

My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else.…

— Mike Huckabee

In Montreal, where I taught in 1970, I met many people. The only ones who said to me they were Canadians, were…

— Zygmunt Bauman

It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that…

— June Diane Raphael

An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they…

— Michael Shurtleff

Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an…

— Brendan I. Koerner

You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of…

— Nicholas Sparks

Everything is not going to go right, not just on the field but also in business. There were times I was injured…

— Shawne Merriman

Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to…

— Zainab Salbi

I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath…

— Garth Stein

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the…

— George Gilder

I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I…

— Billy Joel

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and…

— Stella Chess

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of…

— Sidney Poitier

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

Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As…

— Vivien Leigh

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as…

— Donalyn Miller

Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.

— Judy Gold

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never…

— Zinedine Zidane

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

— Will Rogers

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the…

— Judy Collins

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

— Smohalla

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

— Samuel Johnson

The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

— John Stott

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I…

— Harry Shearer

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do…

— Ken Venturi

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class…

— Simon Newcomb

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean…

— Erin Brockovich

Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

— John Milton