Route Our Parents Took To School

Well-behaved women never make history. - Maria Shriver

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. - Vince Lombardi

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait. - Leo Rosten

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. - Paul Brown

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

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

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

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

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. - Claude Bernard

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective. - Seneca

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. - Jules Renard

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. - Voltaire

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward

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

Everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. - Lou Holtz

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. - Bill Vaughan

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance? - Unknown

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. - James B. Herrick

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

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

Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. - Umberto Eco

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

Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. - Bill Tammeus

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