Julie Andrews famous quotes

04-05-2025

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
-- Julie Andrews

#Inspirational #Positive #Success
Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.
-- Julie Andrews

#Children #Kids #Thinking
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
-- Julie Andrews

#Hard Work #Past #Opportunity
I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.
-- Julie Andrews

#Children #Believe #Book
Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.
-- Julie Andrews

#Beautiful #Princess #Crowns
In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.
-- Julie Andrews

#Hate #Writing #Thinking
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
-- Julie Andrews

#Order #Discipline #People
Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies.
-- Julie Andrews

#Two #Sound #Watches
Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.
-- Julie Andrews

#Art #Forever #Soul
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
-- Julie Andrews

#Race #Wonderful #Fortune
A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.
-- Julie Andrews

#Powerful #Reading #Kids
Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.
-- Julie Andrews

#Nineteen #Failing #Soar
When adversity hits, go out and learn something.
-- Julie Andrews

#Adversity
I am an optimistic lady.
-- Julie Andrews

#Optimistic
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
-- Julie Andrews

#Lovely #Ceramics #Would Be
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

#Shoes #Sky #People
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
-- Julie Andrews

#Focus #Jazz #Classical Music
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

#Gratitude #Heart #Joy
I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
-- Julie Andrews

#Believe #Males #Doe
Dear Lady Gaga , thank you for the wonderful tribute. Oh my god, it really warmed my heart!
-- Julie Andrews

#Heart #Wonderful #Gaga
Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.
-- Julie Andrews

#Book #Favorites Things
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
-- Julie Andrews

#Directors #Scene #Embarrassing
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
-- Julie Andrews

#Enough
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
-- Julie Andrews

#Mother #Family History #Deals
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
-- Julie Andrews

#Love #Heartbreak #Depressing
Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.
-- Julie Andrews

#Graduation #Heart #Dark
Leave everything you do, every place you go, everything you touch a little better for your having been there.
-- Julie Andrews

#Littles
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
-- Julie Andrews

#Inspiring #Careers #Bats
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

#Children #Kids #Library

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