I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history. — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real. — Bill Hicks 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
My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better. — Derek Jeter 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
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!'… — Keith Coogan Copy Share Image
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The military taught me that teamwork is important, which is why I work with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to get… — Steve Stivers Copy Share Image
I'm away so much I've had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I… — Jeff Goodell 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
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
It'll be taught in homes that it's not okay to make fun of a kid because he's gay or it's not okay… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
When I was a child and I was upset about something, my mother was not capable of containing that emotion, of letting… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our faith is what inspires us to reach out and volunteer to help others. As a child my parents taught me the… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
If one of my daughters happened to be [gay], of course I would love them and I would accept them. That's what… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the… — Katheryn Winnick Copy Share Image
The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success. — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image