“I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.” IfsPastEducationLandStudentsTaughtTerribleQuietTwentiesMuseumsMute Author:Eduardo Galeano
“We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.” YearsHumansAgeThreeHuman BeingsExistenceMillionsTaughtThousandSixHundredTwentiesSevenStatisticsTake TimeSeven Years Book:A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas Source: A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas
“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.” IfsYearsWellsKindSelfEnoughSchoolPastLinesRiskTaughtEgoClothesHigh SchoolTwentiesPreparedLifetimeTortureBe KindBiographiesPreservationFlatteringSelf PreservationEdited Author:Sharyn McCrumb
“It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.” PeopleIfsMenWayChildrenHas BeensMadeDifferentFoundJesusUnderstandingBornNumbersMillionsImpossibleHappenedCenturyChangedTaughtBirthMessagesMen And WomenTwentiesCaughtDifferent ThingsNew WaysCaught UpUnderstanding LifeJesus Birth Author:Frederick Buechner
“However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.” ThinkingYearsHumansMeanPastMotherViewsInfluenceTaughtSonDevelopmentInvolvedTwentiesMotherhoodMy SonPassagesRootedOver The PastHuman DevelopmentBeing A MotherPedestriansWhat It Means To Be HumanMost Inspiring Author:Mary Blakely
“I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.” YearsSilenceOne ThingHeardTaughtYears AgoEarsTwenties Author:Mark Nepo
“The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.” UseAgeThreeSpeakBoysFiveTaughtPeriodsTwentiesBowsThree ThingsSpeak The TruthPersian Author:Herodotus
“Along the way, I've worked as a waitress, I've done phone surveys, and worked as a receptionist, and for the last twenty years I've taught. When I was an actor, the key was to find a job that kept your days free to audition.” WayYearsDoneJobsLastsActorsTaughtKeysTwentiesPhonesAuditionsSurveysWaitressReceptionists Author:Debra Dean
“I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.” KindLittlesPersonsTwoSoulStatesGrowthNaturalWatchesTaughtMonthsDaughterTwentiesRateDevelopingMy DaughterExpansionInclinationTwo MonthsTwenty Two Author:Daniel Gillies
“I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow named Michael Goulder, who taught at the University of Birmingham in England, and he writes about the Jewish background in Matthew's gospel, which is part of what I was just talking about, which is just really thrilling to me.” WritingBookTalkingTaughtEnglandTwentiesFellowsUniversityBackgroundsFifteenThrillingMatthewBirmingham Author:John Shelby Spong
“Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.” WritingJobsNiceTaughtTwentiesOddAshamedRealisingIntrovertWriting LifeNineteenOutgoingExtroverts Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.” YearsLastsScienceUsedCitiesEducationFiveBuildingTaughtSkillsGardenTwentiesExperimentsVersionsFive YearsAtomsConstructionGravityFountainMeasurementPrecisionRefinedTwenty FiveLasersPendulumsSemesterYears Of ExperienceBuilding Things Author:Steven Chu