For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
You teach someone about fallopian tubes in grade school, and you revisit it again in seventh grade for a better understanding of… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations,… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I… — Diane Farr Copy Share Image
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that?… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own… — Thora Birch Copy Share Image
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems,… — Abdurrahman Wahid Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and… — Willie Wilson Copy Share Image
The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy… — Henry Gantt Copy Share Image
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch...… — Freddy Adu Copy Share Image
We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as… — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
A good choreographer is one that's going to collaborate, teach, guide - everything. The wonderful thing on 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' was… — Mark Dacascos Copy Share Image
Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it… — Peter Kingsley Copy Share Image
If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image