Taught Quotes · Page 79

Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the…

— Eliza R. Snow

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and…

— Jennifer Ellison

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

— Sheldon B. Kopp

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than…

— Rafe Spall

I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly…

— Tanith Lee

My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to…

— Gio Gonzalez

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

— Quintilian

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

— Andy Goldsworthy

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

— Karen Armstrong

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

— Irenaeus of Lyons

My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Juvenal

I had to make a decision about whether it would impact how I felt about trusting people, and I decided I wasn't…

— Boris Kodjoe

Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience.

— Danny Silk

[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught…

— Jim Jarmusch

I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these…

— Ann Druyan

Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?

— Eminem

I try to think about positive things - how great my form is, how my arms are swinging, my breathing, how loud…

— Kara Goucher

Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is…

— Rajneesh

Both of my parents are music teachers. My mother owns the school that I taught in. My brothers and sisters are musicans.…

— Randy Rhoads

If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.…

— Leo Tolstoy

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back.…

— Ad Reinhardt

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to…

— Ayn Rand

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

— Ben Maddow

The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is…

— Clarence Darrow

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the…

— Kiana Tom

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

— Will Rogers

When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them…

— Jean Guitton

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at…

— Samuel Johnson

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

— Janet Jackson

For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless…

— Shenae Grimes

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

— Jerry Saltz

Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time.…

— Michael Weatherly

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

— Fran Lebowitz

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

— Roberto Baggio

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

— Pema Chodron

My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught…

— Charles Dance

People need to learn how to respond to each other's hatreds with love - which is what Jesus taught us, which is…

— Wayne Dyer

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator…

— George Lucas