My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For… — Chester Nez Copy Share Image
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
As much as I devoured comics, I read non-graphic books exponentially more, so I'm not sure I can credit or blame them.… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.' — Esther Peterson Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what… — Bibhu Mohapatra Copy Share Image
When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
In my martial arts days. I was taught a lot of discipline that probably rolls over into other parts of my life.… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters. — Alvin Dark Copy Share Image
I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models. — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
t's important to handle and learn from your defeats. The losses I've had taught me so much because they humbled me. You… — Diego Sanchez Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
William 'Big Bill' Rockefeller, who sold cancer 'cures' from a medicine wagon, taught him to leap into his arms from a tall… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of… — Kimberly Quinn Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also… — William Daniels Copy Share Image
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image