Take for example the African jungle the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old the sick the wounded the weak the very young but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey you had better be strong.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home it starts with the parental influence.

The great and abiding lesson of American history particularly the cold war is that the engine of capitalism the individual is mightier than any collective.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises quality health services and educational facilities.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt and wish to pass on to others is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Little islands of human happiness peace and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you and were tender with you and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you and disputed passage with you?

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq have learnt lessons.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government Government should not support the people.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson you never forget it.

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now while we can with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.