Helen Hayes Famous Quotes
There is only one terminal dignity -- love.
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.
"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in."
"We relish news of our heroes, Forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."
"Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions."
"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
"Always aim for achievement, and forget about success."
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'"
"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it."
Helen Hayes Quotations
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
David Frost
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
John Burroughs
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith
"If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible."
Nancy Drew
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."
Confucius
"If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal."
Edward Irving Koch
"People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful."
Unknown
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau