A Quote by Richard Livingstone

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

Richard Livingstone

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Anything Doubt Great Great Literature Heart Learnt Literature More School Than Value

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Richard Livingstone
January 23, 1880 - December 26, 1960

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

Brian Cowen

My father spoke with something very similar to a 1920s newscaster type of English, and I learnt that accent of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe. So I learnt that, and I learnt how to copy it, and I learnt how to shift in and out of it, but also talk like my mother's relatives in the village.

Rege-Jean Page

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

Declan Donnelly

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

Kate Bush

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.

Kate Bush

I was exposed to a Muslim school, so I learnt Urdu. I was exposed to a Hindu school, so I learnt Hindi. I was exposed to a Church of England school, so I got my Senior Cambridge certificate.

Saeed Jaffrey

I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet... I want my children to be the same... I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.

John Torode

I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.

Yehuda Berg

The game shapes you. I played for 20 years at all levels, apart from the Premier League. I had a disaster at Bristol City, where in two years I learnt more about myself, the industry, fans, how you get treated, than I ever learnt in my career.

Sean Dyche

Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.

Nick Dear

I learnt in the jungle that there is a great tranquility associated with having nothing of value

Jennie Bond

When I was actively working, I had more than my share of limelight. But over the last many years I have been leading a quiet life and I've learnt to value my privacy.