Taught Me Quotes
1179 Taught Me quotes by 948 unique authors
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Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it…
— Homer
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I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what…
— Paul Ryan
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She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants…
— Rush Limbaugh
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
— Larry Niven
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My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
— Kim Wilde
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I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary…
— Anwar Sadat
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When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my…
— Tony Visconti
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The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come…
— Unknown Author
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at…
— Camille Paglia
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My father taught me how to substitute realities.
— Mira Sorvino
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I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of…
— Aubrey Plaza
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It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
— Jamaica Kincaid
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From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms'…
— Katherine Jenkins
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Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
— Unknown Author
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If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are…
— Leslie Morgan Steiner
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In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a…
— Ron Carlson
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Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That taught me a…
— Terry Matthews
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The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.
— Bernice Johnson Reagon
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I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
— Norma Shearer
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When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked…
— Ani DiFranco
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My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
— Jim Rohn
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic…
— Lance Burton
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Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can…
— William Banting
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