A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can’t even comb my hair.”
Source: Starting At Zero: His Own Story
“A girl asks her doctor, "Doctor, I've forgotten to take my contradictory pill!" The doctor says: "Are you ignorant?" The girl says: "Yes, three months!"”
“A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.”
“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
Source: Survivor
“A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.”
“A girl can dazzle - just naturally!”
“A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do.”
“A girl can dream, can realize, high
on heroines, that she is mortal
and therefore fearless; that sanity
supplies the ground bass to the wildest singing;
that breezes made visible make the finest winds.”
Source: Sakura Park: Poems
“A girl can dream." His eyebrows rose. "Is that what you dream about? Being a monster?" "Not exactly," I said, frowning at his word choice. Monster, indeed. "Mostly I dream about being with you forever.”
Source: Twilight: Twilight
“A girl can have the face of an angel but have a horrid sort of heart.”
Source: Chime
“A girl can still admire, can’t she? Even those who can’t afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasn’t for me didn’t mean I couldn’t covet the merchandise.”
Source: Tiger's Curse
“A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with me. It is weird, though, the way women respond to my body. Maybe 50 percent respond positively right away, while another 25 or 30 percent need a while to adjust to my size and to realize that ordinarily my muscles are soft, just like anyone's, only bigger.”
“A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.”
“A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.”
“A girl can't analyze marriage, and a woman dare not.”
“A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.”
“A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.”
“A girl clutched Magnus’s sleeve and gazed up at him, her false lashes dusted with silver glitter. “Don’t go in,” she whispered. “There’s a monster in there.”
I am a monster, Magnus thought. And monsters are his specialty.
He didn’t say it. Instead he said, “I don’t believe you,” and walked in. He meant it, too: the
Shadowhunters, even Alec, might believe Magnus was a monster, but Magnus didn’t believe it himself. He’d taught himself not to believe it even though his mother, the man he’d called his father, and a thousand others had told him it was true.
Magnus would not believe the girl in there was a monster either, no matter what she might look like to mundanes and Nephilim. She had a soul, and that meant she could be saved.”
Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]
“A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents will use the ultrasound technique. and, if it reveals. a girl, they'll abort her. If it reveals the baby is a boy, they'll celebrate.”
“A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.”
“A girl could get to hate Doms.”
Source: Lean on Me
“A girl could lather up in soap like that.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.”
“A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.”
“A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.”
“A girl doesn't need a hero in her life, she needs a father, doesn't she?”
Source: Just For A While
“A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick." -Holly Golightly”
“A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.”
“A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love”
“A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel
“A girl fainted in front of me the other day. Obviously you don't get to see things like that unless you are The Beatles who have that power, and to see it that close was a bit scary... It was cool to know I can make a girl faint!”
“A girl for whom laughter is her first tune.”
“A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.”
“A girl from another world, on top of our minds
She’s got a crowd of us devoted to her heart
Rivals for affection, lessons in perfection
You gotta be a sinner to be heard by a saint
I’m everywhere and not enough, she’s running rings around me
Searching and hunting and figuring out the game
There’ll be losers in this place, winners to be shamed
Good or bad, cruel or kind, soon she’ll be ours again”
Source: Kind Sinners
“A girl gets more personality from her father,
a boy gets more personality from his mother.”
“A girl goes in with a white dress, and comes out in a white robe.
This was the Iranian rendition of until death do us part; a girl goes in with a white wedding dress and leaves once she dies and is wrapped in a white drape when buried.”
Source: Tajrish
“A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother, half our father?”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“A girl half my age swept by and slammed two giant tankard filled with beer on the table. Ragnvald held his up. I smashed my tankard against his. Beer splashed. We raised the tankard and pretended to take much bigger gulps than we did.”
Source: Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels
“A girl, hardly ten, holding a Barbie doll by its hair, bent over the edge of the fountain, sprinkled her face and forearms, and stared to the side for a moment as Piccoletto, who was also seated on the edge of the fountain, his legs outspread, chewing at his silver crucifix, pulled off his socks. The girl stared long into his leg holes at his balls hanging from his baggy yellow underwear and at the creased foreskin draped over the head of his large member.”
Source: Natura morta
“A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only a wife. But a girl has the - she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.”
“A girl has to have a beautiful smile, Beautiful eyes and she should have a good sense of humor. She should be honest, loving and trustworthy.”
“A girl has to have a beautiful smile, Beautiful eyes and she should have a good sense of humor. She should be Honost, loving and trustworthy.”
“A girl I fall in love with will not have been like I was. I would like the girl who's had serious boyfriends, with maybe a wild phase where she had a couple one-night stands and that was that. Not the one who went for it like I did.”
“A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.”
“A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.”
Source: Duplex
“A girl in Los Angeles that I thought was Australian but was Kiwi told me I could tell everyone when I got back to England I'd met a girl from New Zealand. I told her I was Irish and we'd made the same mistake!”
“A girl in love will do a good deal.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“A girl in middle school once told me that a penis feels just like a tampon, only bigger. I’m not sure if it’s something her mom told her to shut her up, or if it’s somehow true. But as I’m staring at this man’s beautiful, bare naked form in front of me, I can tell you that I highly doubt it’s going to feel like a tampon when he’s inside me.”
Source: Crush Course