My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn… — James Agee Copy Share Image
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There's something very... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to… — Rinko Kikuchi Copy Share Image
I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It… — Cathy Moriarty Copy Share Image
Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Melchizedek Priesthood holders who are fathers in sealed families have been taught what they must do. There is nothing that has come… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My dad has always said to me, "where there is a will there is a way" and this is the type of… — P. K. Subban Copy Share Image
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more… — Edouard Seguin Copy Share Image
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style.… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image