Taught Quotes
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People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.
Caprice Crane
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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
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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
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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
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Thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.
Isaac Watts
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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
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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
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We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?
David Bezmozgis
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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
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I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
Nancy Lopez
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The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
Ziggy Marley
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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
John Milton
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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
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
Wallace Stevens
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My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.
Jeff Bezos
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
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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
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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
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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
George Bernard Shaw
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E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.
Lynne Cheney
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My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
Ray Lewis
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My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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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