Garlands Quotes

• Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Beautiful, Fashion

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• To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Flower, Thinking, Ideas

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• As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Wreaths, Done

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• I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

  John Milton

  Running, Race, Dust

  Areopagitica (1644)

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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

  John Foxe

  Christian, Flower, Heaven

  John Foxe (1830). “The martyrs, or A history of persecution: from the commencement of Christianity to the present time including an account of the trials, tortures, and triumphant deaths of many who have suffered martyrdom”, p.21

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  For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

  Judy Garland

  Love, Funny, Romantic

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• Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Imitation, Imitator, Posterity

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (Prologue), 1798.

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• Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

  Judy Davis

  Father, Pride, Gay

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• See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

  Mel Torme

  Special, Together, Band

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• When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

  Lorna Luft

  Phones, Want Something, Picks

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• Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.

  Walter Scott

  Summer, Queens, Grace

  'Rokeby' (1813) canto 3, st. 16

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• Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

  Willard Scott

  Remember, Retired

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• Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

  Judy Davis

  Way, Honest, Delicious

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• I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Heart, Feelings

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• The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Memorable, Night

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• My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Legends, Destroyed

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, People, Freak

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• My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Phoenix, Ashes

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir". Book by Lorna Luft, April 24, 1998.

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• A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

  John Milton

  Singing, Fancy, Poet

  John Milton (1872). “Autobiography of John Milton: Or, Milton's Life in His Own Words”, p.78

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• One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

  Lorna Luft

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.

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• I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

  Diane Keaton

  Song, Profound, Singing

  "The Upside of Turning 60" by Diane Keaton, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2006.

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• You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

  Judy Garland

  People, Feelings, World

  LIFE magazine, June 2, 1961.

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