Taught Quotes

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

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

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

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

The truth is lived, not taught.

My mother taught me to read.

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

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.