Garlands Quotes

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Gautama Buddha

Life, Beautiful, Fashion

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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

William Butler Yeats

Morning, Children, Flower

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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring ,Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again, And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now, And deck thee with holly's sheen, That, when December blights thy brow, He still may leave thy garland green.

Emily Dickinson

Summer, Sweet, Spring

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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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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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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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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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I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

Judy Garland

Finding Someone, Keyholes, Findings

NBC TV Interview, March 16, 1961.

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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

Ed Koch

Age, Twelve, Born

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I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Judy Garland

Memorable, Age, Twelve

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'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

Judy Garland

I Love You, Valentines Day, I Love Him

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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

Love, Good Night, Men

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

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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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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

Yann Martel

Real, Emotional, Fiction

Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.16, Canongate Books

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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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There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked from our home garden. When we plant the flowers, water them, pick the flowers, make the garland and take it to the temple, thoughts of God alone live in our minds. The Lord accepts anything offered to Him with intense Love. When we buy a garland at a store and place it on the deity it is only a ceremonial act while the other is a garland of pure devotion and an act of love.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual, Flower, Home

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A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Spring, Wine, Mean

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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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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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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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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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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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People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

Lorna Luft

Daughter, Mother, Children

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