If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started.
And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.
He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
There are so many messages and lessons that I have been taught that I would want to share with people. Perhaps one that is very present in my mind now is the concept that we are all living on this one tiny planet that we call Earth. It is very small and is not getting any bigger, but the amount of people living on this planet continues to grow at a rapid rate.
What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.
As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.
I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.
Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.
I met Sam Phillips when he came in [studio] and I said, I'm John Cash. I'm the one who's been calling. And if you'd listen to me, I believe you'll be glad you did. And he said, come on in. That was a good lesson for me, you know, to believe in myself.
The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.
One of the lessons of 911 and (Hurricane) Katrina was 'communication, communication, communication,. . We don't want to have to say 'should have, could have, would have. '.
The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.