Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Mencia

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Dave Barry

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

John McEnroe

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Cass McCombs

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

Edmund Burke

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Jeaniene Frost

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

Matt Ridley

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

Lana Turner

Well, I'm going up and up and up--and nobody's going to pull me down!

Juvenal

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

Juvenal

No one becomes depraved all at once.

Ben Crump

I don't know what depraved indifference is if it's not shown in that video tape.

Abraham Lincoln

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.