Quotes of: Taught Keyword

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

Hattie McDaniel

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.

Jeremy Miller

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

John Mahoney

In India, you're taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.

Deepak Chopra

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Doug Collins

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

Dick Gregory

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

Daymond John

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance

Derrick Jensen

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Denis Leary

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

James P. Hogan

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Jane Haddam

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

James Welch

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Cheryl Strayed

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.

George Michael

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

Terry Bradshaw

Michael Corleone: If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.

The Godfather: Part II

Rizzo the Rat: Mother always taught me: "Never eat singing food."

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Bartender: The one thing that this job has taught me is that truth is stranger than fiction.

Predestination

Darth Vader: Obi-Wan has taught you well.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

Robert Caro

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

Kevin Smith