Taught Quotes

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

I remember being taught my place.

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

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

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

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

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

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'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.