Taught Quotes · Page 75

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

— Lawrence Summers

We have taught a generation to feast and play but the times demand we fast and pray.

— Lou Engle

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

— Jane Fonda

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

— Shirley Manson

Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things…

— James F. Cooper

I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself…

— Anonymous

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

— Jane Goodall

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that…

— Arnold Ross

Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to…

— Karen Armstrong

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always…

— Stephen Ambrose

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We…

— Joaquin Phoenix

Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about…

— Ken Osmond

The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with…

— Dallas Willard

Whoever has used what means he is capable of, for the informing of himself, with a readiness to believe and obey what…

— John Locke

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species,…

— William Hazlitt

I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of…

— Jacob Lawrence

While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor-and to be mentored!-constantly.Everything in the…

— John Wooden

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls…

— Chief Seattle

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography…

— Sam Abell

My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about…

— Florence Nightingale

Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Beautiful. You can be taught. Makes my job so much easier when you’re actually intelligent. You’d be amazed at the idiots I’ve…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While…

— Dan Pallotta

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from…

— Maya Angelou

“I was taught to work hard. I learned to work smarter. Not everyone gets this privilege.”

— Marion Bekoe

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.

— Bill Bennett

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that,…

— Michael Pollan

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

— Sydney Pollack

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

— Juvenal

“It taught me that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries…

— Lauren DeStefano

I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on…

— Viola Davis

People think that we hired a bunch of actresses and taught them how to wrestle, and that couldn't be further from the…

— Tessa Blanchard

My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.

— Becky G

Playing halfback in high school and college was marvelous! It taught me how to get to the end zone. I wanted to…

— Tommy McDonald

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.

— Marie Osmond

It taught me how to be a man, how to get up, how to live in pain. Taught me so much about…

— Deion Sanders

Israel, Palestine, if you're going to make it, that probably is the hardest deal there is to make. People are born with…

— Donald Trump

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency…

— Gordon B. Hinckley