More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.
In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.
Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.
There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.
The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open,because you never know what's going to come your way.
She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.
I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.
Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real
Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.
I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.