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

Judy Davis

Way, Honest, Delicious

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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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Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

Willard Scott

Remember, Retired

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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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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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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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From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

Padma Lakshmi

Children, Blessed, Simple

"A model who eats? She wrote the book" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2004.

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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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It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

Liza Minnelli

Mother, Daughter, Children

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

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

Judy Garland

Memorable, Age, Twelve

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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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'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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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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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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