Route Our Parents Took To School

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn. - Greek Proverb

Rotarians, be patriotic! Learn to shoot yourself. - Unknown

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves. - Unknown

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

I'm aging like fine wine. I'm getting complex and fruity. - Unknown

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. - Adlai Stevenson

It's impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. - Yogi Berra

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked. - Warren Buffett

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. - Richard Branson

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. - Jack Nicholson

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards. - Mark Twain

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

You learn more from failure than from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character. - Unknown

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. - Kurt Vonnegut

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

I wanted to be scared again. I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged. - Connie Chung

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch

Menopause is thicker than water. When we talk and laugh about it, we learn and relax. It's a life transition, not a disease. - Unknown

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

I remind myself every morning: nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. - Larry King

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. - Kay Boyle

Nobody like to fail, but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game. - Ben Bernanke