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

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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...

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...

If you rest, you rust.

If you rest, you rust.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

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...

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...

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem...

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem...

Childhood is a short season.

Childhood is a short season.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before...

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before...

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

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

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story...

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story...

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...

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,...

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.

Children of the future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time...

Children of the future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time...

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search...

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search...

Softly along the road of evening, In a twilight dim with rose, Wrinkled with age,...

Softly along the road of evening, In a twilight dim with rose, Wrinkled with age,...

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?'...

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?'...