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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators.
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.
Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.
My dad always taught me that you have to be good to the next person all the time because one person is going to help another person.
One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart.
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 was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.
I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'
Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.
My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.
Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.
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.
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
Every comic is taught that you're supposed to have a great seven-minute set and then get a sitcom. And I don't want to get the sitcom.
What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.
My kids both had Catholic junior school education, which I'm really glad for - it taught them how to be compassionate, how to be kind.
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 taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.
One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.
I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.
For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.
No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.
We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.
My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower.
I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is super clear
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.
My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
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.
My mom and dad taught me a lot. They kept me out of trouble and told me to go a better route. They taught me how to be a man, basically.
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.
The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.
I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
If you start something, you shouldn't quit; that is what we were taught. If you're going to play, you might as well play to be your best.
Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.
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.