Top 45 Laurel Quotes

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

I was a great fan of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy; they always inspired me.

I think when I was young, let’s call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That’s really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.

I was a ‘Laurel and Hardy’ nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he’d want me to play him.

In the international contest of ideologies, it is not assured that ours will win; we have to earn the winner’s laurel generation by generation. One way we earn it is by living our values as the world watches.

You have to give people permission to laugh. That’s why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

The nation’s government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

Laurel Canyon area music is legendary.

‘Hera Pheri’ is inspired by ‘Laurel and Hardy,’ Charlie Chaplin. It is about humor of poverty.

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘Rama of the Jungle’.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that’s literally 70 years.

What’s interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there’s a straight man, and then there’s the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they’re both the funny guy.

Unfortunately it’s easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be unique.

Scarily, I was only about 11 or 12 when my mum pointed out my resemblance to Stan Laurel. I know he’s the ultimate loser, but I was happy to hear it.

I’ve had such an incredible arc, so it made sense to me, creatively, that we’ve told Laurel’s story. It has come to an end in the ‘Arrow’-verse.

As Laurel Van Ness it’s so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I’m so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, ’til about ’68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little… edgy.

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Mississippi. I was making, like, $2.15 an hour. And I was taught how to responsibly handle those customer interactions.

While other kids were into New Kids on the Block, I was into Harold Lloyd and Stan Laurel.

Laurel and Hardy are among my strongest influences, and I think they’re perfect examples of two naive, kid-like characters that are still funny today. In fact, they’re a lot like SpongeBob and Patrick, walking around in their own little world and causing a fine mess.

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians – Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I’d go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I’d seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

I was a West Hollywood and Laurel Canyon girl for years, and it was so central that I felt like we’d moved to Portland when we came to Malibu, but now I can’t imagine living anywhere else. We have the best of all worlds, hilltop living, 15 minutes from town, with the beach at the bottom of the road.

Laurel and Hardy have this love relationship. Why? This little Englishman screwed Hardy up, physically, every day of his life! Why is he with him the next day? It’s forgiving.

I think it’s amusing to watch a naive, well-meaning character kind of undo more cynical characters – kind of like watching Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin.

I grew up on Laurel and Hardy. I’m aware from my own experience that comedy has got quite a fierce sell-by date, but that doesn’t seem to apply to them; they made films I can remember laughing at when I was five that I’d still happily watch today.

I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a child, I knew who they were, and knew the culture of it, what they meant.

I think that the essence of a Christmas wreath – of all Christmas vegetative decoration – has to be green and, if possible, living. So the basis of a wreath is ideally holly, laurel, ivy, rosemary, larch, fir or whatever is to hand.

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 wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

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 and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

I was raised with ‘Laurel and Hardy’ and ‘I Love Lucy’ and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it’s the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you’re performing in your bedroom for yourself.

The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the sea almond or the spice laurel of the heights.

In Pennsylvania, I love the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington. It’s a scenic area. We also enjoy visiting the Laurel Highlands in Western Pennsylvania. The mountains are really something to be seen, and it’s a great area to be outside.

When I get some budding young comic who’ll come up to me and say, ‘What was it like to do it in those days?’ I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

It is true that I got recognition. But however good the comedies are, nobody will accept a good comedy director as a good director. That is the sad part of it. Nobody knows who directed the ‘Laurel and Hardy’ movies. They know only Laurel and Hardy. Directors will never get a good name if they direct a comedy film.

Laurel Canyon and Dawes have become linked in a way that I think is misguided, frankly, to tell a new fan what we sound like. But at one point maybe it wasn’t.

In June 2002, I had just finished ‘Laurel Canyon’ and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.

Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered as a prize a not particularly expensive medal, a laurel wreath, and a bowl of beef stew. This was the race that, on one memorable occasion, nobody knew who actually won.

The name Laurel is such a strange choice because I think when you look at me there’s not one person that says ‘Oh yeah, I could see you as a Laurel.’

If you’re watching comedy movies, go back and check out the Marx Brothers in ‘Duck Soup,’ or Buster Keaton in ‘The General,’ or Laurel and Hardy or W.C. Fields or whatever – and see what pure talent really was, so that you can see where it came from, and then you can sort of gauge it from there.

The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him.

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It’s this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.