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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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