Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Quote by Helen Hayes

Topics: Life Quotes, Longevity Quotes

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....

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...

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

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...

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

If you rest, you rust.

If you rest, you rust.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Childhood is a short season.

Childhood is a short season.

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.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

As a nation, a society, a family and an individual, we must be grateful to...

As a nation, a society, a family and an individual, we must be grateful to...

American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social...

American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social...

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.