Taught Quotes

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.