Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them to others? Could we defend the Constitution? Can we recognize when a law is constitutionally unsound? Do we know what the prophets have said about the Constitution and the threats to it?

Eugenie Scott

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, "We shouldn't be teaching creationism." Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

Francis Chan

I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.

Francis Chan

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

Francis Chan

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

George Washington Carver

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.

George Washington

To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights, to discern and provide against invasions of them, to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society.

George Mikes

Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

Chris Tucker

I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.

Chris Kyle

I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory is that kids get into trouble because of curiosity—if you don’t satisfy it, you’re asking for big problems. If you inform them and carefully instruct them on safety when they’re young, you avoid a lot of the trouble. My son has learned to respect weapons. I’ve always told him, if you want to use a gun, come get me. There’s nothing I like better than shooting.

George W. Bush

According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur'an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan. That word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements.

George W. Bush

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

George Stigler

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

George Tenet

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

George R. R. Martin

a few days ago she had been wandering around with a swatch of black silk tied over her eyes. Syrio was teaching her to see with her ears and her nose and her skin, she told him. Before that, he had her doing spinds and back flips. "Arya, are you certain you want to persist in this?" She nodded. "Tomorrow we're going to catch cats." "Cats." Ned sighed.

George R. R. Martin

Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.' 'I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser', Jon said. 'I'd love to see Ghost juggle.

Jean Cocteau

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

Jean Cocteau

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Garry Winogrand

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

Garry Winogrand

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

Garry Winogrand

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

Garry Winogrand

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

Garry Winogrand

I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.

Garry Winogrand

Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.

Frederick Douglass

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin....

Helen Keller

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

Cassandra Clare

I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if you were planning on teaching yourself the lambada on a greased platform over a pit full of knives, I wouldn't." "There goes my Saturday.

Geoffrey Canada

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

Geoffrey Chaucer

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Gabe Newell

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

Fred Allen

Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.

Christine Lagarde

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

Isaac Watts

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.