Taught Quotes

I'm away so much I've had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver and bacon, and an Italian mate taught me how to make a mean puttanesca sauce.

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

I can’t believe Sadie’s going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must’ve really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.

Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

I would have taught her a les­son she wouldn't forget!

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.

You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.

Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.

The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and that what you withhold is as important as what you share.

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.

Art can only be taught by artists.

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.