Age Quote by George Burns Download Open image “I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.” — George Burns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age American history Funny Funny friend History Humor Kids Littles
The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American… — Okieriete Onaodowan Copy Share Image
There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned. — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe,… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't… — Usher Copy Share Image
Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You… — George Burns Copy Share Image
Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been… — George Burns Copy Share Image
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. — George Burns Copy Share Image
I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody. — George Burns Copy Share Image
What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the… — George Burns Copy Share Image
If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl. — George Burns Copy Share Image
I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do. — George Burns Copy Share Image
Take care not to wear stripes that are out of sync with your wrinkles. — George Burns Copy Share Image
By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and… — George Burns Copy Share Image
I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands. — George Burns Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image