Julie Andrews Edwards > Quotes

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“ In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game! ”
― Julie Andrews

“Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

“The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes...”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.”
― Julie Andrews

“Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.”
― Julie Andrews

“Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.”
― Julie Andrews, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

“The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.”
― Julie Andrews

“I hate the word wholesome.”
― Julie Andrews

“Learn to listen when people are talking. First, it's a great art, and second, it's quite possible that when people say one thing they mean another.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”
― Julie Andrews

“A rose lay open in full bloom
and, looking from my garden room,
I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain.
It seemed so fragile,
resting there,
and such a silence filled the air,
the beauty of the moment caused me pain.
"What more?" I thought. "There must be more."
As if in answer then, I saw
one weighty drop that caused my rose to fall.
It trembled, then cascaded down
to earth just staining gentle brown
and, since then, I've felt different.
That's all.”
― Julie Andrews, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

“Pax amor et lepos in iocando. Latin for Peace, love and sense of fun.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“Don't you sometimes feel bewildered when you think of the millions of things that put life together?' ... 'I;m not bewildered. I'm filled with the deepest awe and wonder. The miracle is that in its complexity it all works.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“Let your curiosity run away with you. Know that beyond every ordinary explanation there is a deeper and more exciting discovery to be made.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, Mandy

“Early one beautiful summer evening, when everyone else was drinking indoors, Tony and I walked down to the river. We lay on the grass under a tree and chatted. At one point, Tony said, "Look at the pattern of lace the leaves make against the sky." I looked at the canopy above us, and suddenly saw what he saw. My perspective completely shifted. I realized I didn't have his "eyes" -- though once he pointed it out, it became obvious. It made me think, "My God, I never look enough," and in the years since, I've tried very hard to look --
and look again.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

“November came roaring in with gusty winds and more wet weather. Mandy's depression would not go away. Her garden seemed sad, too. It was virtually empty now, and the few brave flowers that remained there were flattened by rain, their yellows stalks sprawling in all directions. Most of the trees were bare, and the woods had a wet carpet of leaves.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, Mandy

“That night she dreamed of the deer. Strangely, the animal was holding her. She cuddled close into the soft fur and touched and kissed it gently. In the morning her pillow was wet with tears.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“Whatever man imagines is possible”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles