Taught Quotes

• I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Dance
  • Taught
  • Dancer

• Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Focus
  • Goal
  • Block

• I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • School
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from canning and sewing, and dad taught us everything we needed to know about farming.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • She
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Friends
  • Reading
  • Taught

• The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Men
  • Important

• Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • People
  • Knights
  • Franklin

• Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Society
  • Human
  • Born

• We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • Better
  • Taught
  • Limit

• I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Softball

• Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Religion
  • Taught
  • Primarily

• I once said some mean things about someone, and they were standing right behind me. That experience taught me to never talk bad about anyone.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Never

• Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

  

  John Milton
  • Rule
  • Observe
  • Temperance

• I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Experience
  • Thankful
  • Much

• I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Taught
  • Seldom
  • Mention

• The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Fire
  • Taught
  • How

• My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Mum

• My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Taught
  • Grandfather

• Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

  

  Aristotle
  • Lies
  • Poets
  • Homer

• My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Father
  • Principles
  • Taught

• I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Learned
  • Disease
  • Taught

• I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

  

  Jorge Posada
  • Winning
  • Kid
  • Taught

• I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Movie

• I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Woman
  • Brains
  • Fell in Love

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