Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it… — Butch Hancock Copy Share Image
In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect. — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.' — John Wooden Copy Share Image
We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life,… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these…We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point… — Beryl Bender Birch Copy Share Image
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Joseph Smith visited me a great deal after his death, and taught me many important principles. . . . Among other things,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
When I was learning how to box, that was the number one thing my trainer taught me. He said you can't get… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew… — Edward Gibbon 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
The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you I was… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them… — Patti LaBelle Copy Share Image
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself,… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace. — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
