They Taught Quotes
81 quotes by 76 authors
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents - Adam and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught…
— Lewis Black
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our…
— Oliver North
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No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were…
— George MacDonald
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My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the…
— Carl Sagan
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Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how…
— Melissa Etheridge
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I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in…
— Akshay Kumar
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From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught…
— Steven Spielberg
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They taught me different was wrong.
— Ani DiFranco
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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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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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As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If…
— Jerome Rothenberg
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One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.
— Kage Baker
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The Nephilim was something I'd known about since I was really young. If you're familiar with the first book of the Bible, Genesis, you see…
— Carl McCoy
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My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But…
— Emma Bonino
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They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to…
— Lawrence Anthony
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I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying…
— Kiana Tom
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I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might…
— Napoleon Hill
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My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never…
— Mike Huckabee
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How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing…
— Benjamin Franklin
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