“I need the sea because it teaches me”

“I'll teach you to kick me…'
You don't need to teach me--I already know how!”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.”

I. F. Stone (1907–1989) American investigative journalist and author

“Death,
I need my little addiction to you.
need that tiny voice who,
even as I rise from the sea,
all woman, all there,
says kill me, kill me.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

“What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.”

Jean Paul Sartre The Flies

“I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.”

50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer

“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.”

Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic

“I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.”

Terry Tempest Williams book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“His [Bhagwan Dass'] teaching seemed to be no teaching because he always taught from within … that is, his lessons aroused in me just affirmation … as if I knew it all already.”

Ram Dass book Be Here Now

“I know you worry about me needing you, but I shouldn't be with you because I need you. I should be with you because I love you.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls