From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Quote by Helen Hayes

Topics: Books Quotes

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment,...

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment,...

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Childhood is a short season.

Childhood is a short season.

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each...

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each...

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original...

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original...

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines....

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines....

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine...

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine...

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of...

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of...

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one...

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one...

If you rest, you rust.

If you rest, you rust.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures...

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures...

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of...

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of...

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and...

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and...

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by...

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by...

Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's...

Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's...

But like of each thing that in season grows.

But like of each thing that in season grows.