Famous quotes containing the word teach:
“Clara: I don’t think a mother should depend so much upon her children for her rewards in life.
Mrs. Pilletti: Well, that’s what they teach you in New York University. It real life, it no work out like this.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies, you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)