Quote by Russell Hoban
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach t

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. – Russell Hoban

Other quotes by Russell Hoban

But when I dont smoke I scarcely feel as if Im living. I dont feel as if Im living unless Im killing myself. – Russell Hoban

Category:
Smoking
Read Quote

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you dont make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. – Russell Hoban

Category:
Violence
Read Quote

When you suffer an attack of nerves youre being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? – Russell Hoban

Category:
Stress
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Learning
category

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. – Washington Irving

Category:
Learning

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. – Rita Dove

Category:
Learning

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. – Jet Li

Category:
Learning

Were all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. – Mary Wesley

Category:
Learning

Random Quotes

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Category:
best

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. – Thomas Merton

Category:
God

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one – You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. – Abbe Pierre

Category:
Society

Definitely, its a fear of failure that drives me. – Jerry Bruckheimer

Category:
Failure