(321 quotes found)
“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”
Mario Cuomo
“My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.”
Mickey Mantle
“Better untaught than ill taught”
Proverb
“Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.”
Calvin Trillin
“She taught me that it's OK to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
Pat Summitt
“Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.”
Walter Benjamin
“A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught”
Seneca
“Mainly what I learned from Buddy, ... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.”
Waylon Jennings
“Geniuses are born, but they still have to be taught.”
Richard Schneeman
“Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.”
Robbie Coltrane
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