Taught Quotes

Fortunately, both my parents, especially my mom, have guided me, and been amazing at handling my career and my finances. They taught me not to buy what I don't need, when I'm not working that much.

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

Israel, Palestine, if you're going to make it, that probably is the hardest deal there is to make. People are born with hatred, they're taught hatred.

The plants have taught me they don't like to be potted too long - it's very restrictive to them so I would plant them outside if you could, or in a green house.

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age, it was the end of a golden age.

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

One thing my teacher taught me about getting psychic information with my intuition was to say, "Just show me the truth of this situation, God." That helps us to be able to read it more clearly.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view

Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.

While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.

I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.

Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

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 nobody was involved in politics in my family.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!

My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it.

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.

Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).