Quotes About Lessons

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

There was so much I could teach her.

We read history in order not to have to repeat it. When I

philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat

Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection.

Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection.

History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you being one. This is easier as a sober artist in Santa Barbara than as an alcoholic jailbird in Leith.

Quien bien te quiere te hará llorar, dice el refrán. Yo soy la prueba viviente de que es lo mejor. A ver, que a mí nunca me verás tener problemas de ninguna clase con la poli desde hace ya mucho. Me aprendí la puta lección: no me meto en líos y los evito todo lo posible. Lo único que le pido a la vida es beber un poco, el fútbol y echar un polvo de vez en cuando.

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth—if such a thing can even be said to exist.

Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.

Lo so. Lo sappiamo tutti. Forse la lezione del passato potrà insegnarci cosa evitare. E poi, la tirannia che c'è adesso è reale. Quella che potrebbe esistere in futuro è solamente potenziale. Non possiamo sottrarci sempre ai cambiamenti pensando che la situazione potrebbe cambiare in peggio, altrimenti addio speranza di riuscire un giorno a sconfiggere l'ingiustizia.

Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry

El primer amor es como la viruela, deja huellas imborrables.

Me hice cargo de los gastos, tal como había hecho durante mi matrimonio, sin que me pesara, porque ganaba suficiente, pero con Fabian había aprendido una lección que habría de recordar siempre: no basta con ganar dinero, hay que saber manejarlo. Eso, que ahora me parece indiscutible, en mi juventud era una novedad.

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

Everything I ever learned about rock, I learned from Led Zeppelin.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

The best part of watching kung fu movies with my dad was the conversations they sparked. We never watched them just for fun. 'Do you see how good his balance is?' My dad would always zero in on really specific stuff like that. Everything had a potential lesson.

We've been doing a 40-year end zone celebration of the victories won by our parents and grandparents. We haven't shepherded our history. We haven't taught it so others can learn from it and implement the lessons.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.