Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were… — Rodney S. Quinn Copy Share Image
It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake. — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes; Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time. — Bill Bennett Copy Share Image
If I hadn't had Freddie Mercury's lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don't know where I would be. It… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
I notice fashion on other people, I always enjoy it when people try and look their best, I've always been taught to… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
I think every American kid grows up dreaming about being in the movies. That's completely normal for us. But I mostly wanted… — David Labrava Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think it [my first heartbreak] probably just taught me that you will always heal. That this too shall pass. The first… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught… — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears. — John McCain Copy Share Image
I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Peace can be settled in the heart of each who turns to the scriptures and unlocks the promises of protection and redemption… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that. — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has… — Jeffrey Goldberg Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There… — Howard Thurston Copy Share Image
I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard. — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image