#aught

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. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#books #discover #foot #how #laughter

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#laughter #most #wasted #without

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#act #always #anybody #bad #check

Morality is not only taught; it is caught. ↗

— Neil Kurshan

#morality #only #taught

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#afraid #death #defeat #fear #having

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. ↗

— Theresa May

#church #daughter #england #i #i am

I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days. ↗

— James Kavanaugh

#laughter #dreams

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#best #deeply #had #i #invent

Who ever he is, I agree with your mother," said Dad as he entered the kitchen. "Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you're of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#jon #kami #age

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#father #fathers #fathers-and-daughters #growing-up #life