#taught

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#being #down #hasn #head #i

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#am #around #beginning #dignity #example

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#clean #contribution #everyone #gratitude #had

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care. ↗

— Dave Obey

#away #care #check #disaster #economic

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995. ↗

— Larry Page

#cars #discipline #i #interested #know

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create. ↗

— Ed Parker

#often #study #taught #traditionalists

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#shameful #taught

A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious. ↗

— Ed Royce

#big #children #criticize #every #face

My father taught me how to substitute realities. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#father #how #me #realities #substitute

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong. ↗

— Robert Kagan

#age #almost #earliest #i #known