Taught Us Quotes

The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled.

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.

And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just dealing with comedy.

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.

There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet

Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.

[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught us to be experimental.

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.

Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that you can't keep people with no shame down.

Jack Layton taught us to believe in a new approach to leadership.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Women don't run around saying, "Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us how to blah blah." They come, they go, and I rarely hear from them again.

Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

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.

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.

Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.

Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million