A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.”
Source: Divine & moral songs for children
“A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.”
“A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.”
“A flu shot just compromises your immune system.”
“A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“A fluent trumpeter with a bright tone and a forward-looking style.”
“A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.”
“A flurry of snowflakes leaves marshmallows of love in my hair.”
“A flustered-looking woman hurries after him, but he doesn’t stop. I turn around to watch, silently rooting the kid on. I want to crouch down beside him and tell him to use the tunnel, to keep flying through the dark while he’s still allowed. “When’s the last time we did that?” I ask Lacey when we reach my car, and she shrugs. Then I’m starting the car and tears prick the backs of my eyes and I hate that so many Lasts happen when you aren’t paying attention.”
Source: No One Here Is Lonely
“A flute with no holes is not a flute.”
“A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.”
“A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.”
“A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.”
“A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.”
“A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.”
“A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.”
“A fly was very close to being called a land, because that's what it does half the time.”
“A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.”
“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.”
“A fn de cuentas, todos somos seres humanos y dignifcar la vida humana nos dignifca a todos y cada uno de nosotros.”
Source: El Universo Antrópico
“A focus on multiple success factors strengthens a company's resilience in the face of challenges.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.”
“A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK.”
“A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.”
“A foe to God was never true friend to man”
“A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.”
Source: Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
“A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be
who's hungry and where their mouth is or
who's out of work and where the job is or
who's broke and where the money is or
who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.”
“A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.”
Source: Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany
“A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).”
“A follower who leads is greater than a leader who follows.”
“A folyosón Enikő az egyik diákjába, Király Robiba botlik, aki egy hónapok óta ottfelejtett asztalon ül, és fintorogva olvas egy nem olyan régen megjelent novelláskötetet. Enikő régóta ismeri Robit, a fiú évek óta látogatja a szemináriumait, még most is, pedig így heted-nyolcadéves hallgatóként már megválogatja, hogy hova tesz még be a lábát. (262.)”
Source: Mágneshegy
“A fome me devora deixando só o bagaço.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“A fome é má conselheira, enlouquece os homens, torna-os ferozes, selvagens.”
Source: Ma femme
“A fome é uma certa morte à espera.”
Source: Deus na escuridão
“A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.”
“A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc
“A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of all ages, makes it the height of folly to intrust any set of men with power which is not under every possible control; perpetual strides are made after more as long as there is any part withheld.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc
“A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.”
“A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
“A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.”
“A food bank fills more than stomachs, it fills the gap between policy and compassion.”
“A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.”
“A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.”
“A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.”
“A food's value is based on how good it tastes.”
“A foodie is somebody who thinks about food not just as biological sustenance, but also a key part of their identity, and a kind of lifestyle.”
Source: Foodies
“A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.”
“A FOOL ACTS Faster Than A GENIUS But A GENIUS REACTS Faster Than A FOOL, TIRUMAAL SRI MURUGA PERUMAL”