She Taught Quotes
68 She Taught quotes by 63 unique authors
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My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to…
— James Earl Jones
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The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917.…
— Spike Lee
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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning…
— Al Sharpton
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She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.
— Eric Roth
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She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark.…
— Justin Cronin
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Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.
— Janet Fitch
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I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not…
— Portia de Rossi
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Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
— Jodi Picoult
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She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.
— John Green
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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last…
— Hermann Hesse
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My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to…
— Arianna Huffington
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Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like…
— Nicholas Sparks
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She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise…
— Isabel Allende
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Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed…
— Alyson Noel
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all…
— Veronica Roth
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.
— Veronica Roth
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Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.
— Joe Greene
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
— Mandy Moore
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My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged.…
— LZ Granderson
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My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father…
— Sidney Poitier
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I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every…
— Marcus Samuelsson
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read -…
— Vik Muniz
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