As a Dominican man, you're socialized to be a playboy. You spend a lot of time being taught that women are important,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The code that most prisoners live by is an extension of the masculine roles they were taught growing up, how they were… — James Fox Copy Share Image
Our sons and daughters must be trained in national service, taught to give as well as to receive. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school. — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom… — Smohalla Copy Share Image
Reading, writing, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, physics, and more were all at one time deep occult secrets. Today, many of these things… — Donald Michael Kraig Copy Share Image
I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Our Savior gave Himself in unselfish service. He taught that each of us should follow Him by denying ourselves of selfish interests… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future.Things go wrong all the time… — Lori Greiner Copy Share Image
What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say. — Steven Herrick Copy Share Image
I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught. — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured. — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings. — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great,… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk,… — Richard Briers Copy Share Image
I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation. — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Jesus sowed good seeds into the lives of the people He touched. His walk was humble, meek, giving, and forgiving, and He… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum,… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image