Taught Me Quotes
1179 Taught Me quotes by 948 unique authors
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between…
— Cornelia Funke
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You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together,…
— Peter S. Beagle
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Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country…
— Greg Mortenson
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A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.
— Amin Maalouf
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But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.
— Junot Diaz
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
— Bernard Malamud
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I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance…
— John Grogan
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One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me;…
— Wilma Mankiller
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Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.
— Dean Koontz
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St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She…
— Jeanette Winterson
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If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is…
— Stephen King
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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and…
— Charles Dickens
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Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal…
— Thomas Merton
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them,…
— Galileo Galilei
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually…
— Amy Tan
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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women…
— Alice Hoffman
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[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you…
— Anne Lamott
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But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime.…
— Paulo Coelho
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The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and…
— Azar Nafisi
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The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given…
— Hermann Hesse
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Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like…
— Markus Zusak
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My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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