I Taught Quotes
111 I Taught quotes by 104 unique authors
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I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world…
— Willie Mays
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Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a…
— Rick Riordan
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Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book,…
— Adora Svitak
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I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel.…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?
— James M. Barrie
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If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing…
— Frances Hardinge
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So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of they…
— Carson McCullers
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It can’t eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis) She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
— Orson Scott Card
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I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from…
— Madeline Miller
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I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they played their riffs, and after I…
— Brian Wilson
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I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give…
— Stefon Harris
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No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself,…
— Unknown Author
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During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income…
— Sal Albanese
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I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American…
— Ben Stein
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My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to…
— Brendan Myers
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Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to teach acting. One of the first…
— Unknown Author
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I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
— Mark Takano
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I taught high school students Spanish.
— Daniela Bobadilla
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I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.
— Richie Sambora
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I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily,…
— Allen West
Who Wrote These I Taught Quotes
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