Taught Quotes

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

My grandmother taught me, you believe in a politician, you get out there and work for them. So, that's what I've been doing.

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

Freddie Mercury taught me 3 thingsdon't take anything too seriously, have fun and always fly first class.

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and its something that carries with me to this day.

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.