#taught

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#chin #father #get #how #i

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins. ↗

— Angie Stone

#never #quits #quitter #taught #winner

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#i #kind #life #niceties #taught

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#face #got #grandmother #had #her

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby. ↗

— Star Jones

#baby #every #me #relationship #taught

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair. ↗

— June Jordan

#big #both #fair #father #fight

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare. ↗

— Vanessa Williams

#almost #control #eye #feet #giving

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#birth #distracted #ethical #fellow #his

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway. ↗

— B. B. King

#doorway #family #get #gotta #growing

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#break #energy #five #girl #had