Laurel Quotes
51 quotes by 42 authors
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There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with…
— Henry Mitchell
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
— Oscar Wilde
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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store…
— Beth Henley
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As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere…
— Aprilynne Pike
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I want us to know our world.  If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy…
— Lady Bird Johnson
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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of…
— Jane Porter
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l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble…
— Dorothy Draper
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The…
— Edmund Spenser
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Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush…
— Mark Nepo
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Let us, then, try what love will do, for if people once see we love them, we should soon find that they would not harm…
— William Penn
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Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King…
— John Lennon
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When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.
— Brian Williams
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Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet;…
— Marsilio Ficino
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You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back,…
— Grantland Rice
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The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and…
— David Chase
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Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then,…
— Aprilynne Pike
Who Wrote These Laurel Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 51 Laurel Quotes, led by these top contributors: