Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Laurel Lea

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian musician Laurel Lea.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Laurel Lea

Lorraine May Chapman, professionally known as Laurel Lea, was an Australian popular singer of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lea appeared regularly on TV series, Bandstand, Six O'Clock Rock and Saturday Date. In 1974 and 1975 she toured throughout Australia with contemporaries Johnny O'Keefe, Johnny Devlin, Lonnie Lee and Barry Stanton. On 31 January 1992 Lea died of leukaemia.

I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.
The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering. — © Laurel Lea
The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.
Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.
Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.
I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.
It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal. — © Laurel Lea
It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.
...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.
Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.
When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.
(Home) is you in things.
Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.
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