#aught

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#because #drums #father #first #goal

How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#doubt #early #foreign #found #his

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#dad #daughter #loves #she #sister

My mom taught me not to talk about money. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#me #mom #money #talk #taught

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot. ↗

— Faye Dunaway

#did #fed #great #happy #i

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter. ↗

— George Grosz

#allowed #because #disappointed #few #go

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#believing #give #go #goals #i

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies. ↗

— Andrew Gross

#conspiracies #crisis #dads #danger #daughters

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat. ↗

— George Grossmith

#dignity #foot #i #left #mat

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#become #energy #laughter #might #negative