A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A girl in New York whose parents were on Wife Swap is suing the show for 100-million dollars for making her look like a spoiled brat. Note to girl: guess what else makes you look like a spoiled brat? Being 15 and suing for a hundred million dollars.”
“A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“A girl in the middle years also becomes more centered in her soul-life, the feelings of her heart, and she needs our guidance to learn to express her uniqueness, those small seeds that will someday sprout into gifts, talents, and resources.”
Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman
“A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.”
“A girl is a hunted animal," I said.”
Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“A girl is a soul at sunrise.”
Source: Spirits in the street
“A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.”
“A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.”
“A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.”
“A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“A girl left to her own device should demand batteries”
Source: Flawless Fantasy
“A girl like that does not deserve to be married to a man she does not love!”
The doctor stared for a moment, and then burst into quite inexplicable laughter. “Are we still speaking of Helen?” he wheezed after a moment.
“Yes,” snapped the matron, glaring at him.
“Dear me,” said the doctor, removing his glasses and dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief. “Such a circumstance would be very unfortunate – very, very.”
The matron huffed. “The poor child is trapped in a loveless marriage – trust me. I’m a woman.”
“The not-at-all-to-be-pitied girl is married to a man she adores,” the doctor said, smiling. “Trust me. I’m a man, with a wife and three daughters.”
“Adores my eye!”
The doctor replaced his spectacles and spoke very patiently: “Miss Bingham, only a woman who loves remembers what kind of aircraft her man flies.”
Source: Lighten Our Darkness
“A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.”
Source: Black Heart: The Curse Workers
“A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.”
Source: Why We Broke Up
“A girl must allow others to share the responsibility for care, thus enabling others to care for her. She must learn how to care inways appropriate to her age, her desires, and her needs; she then acts with authenticity. She must be allowed the freedom not to care; she then has access to a wide range of feelings and is able to care more fully.”
“A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.”
“A girl my age had been murdered in these woods and I'd seen her last terrified moments, watched her bleed to death in this forest. A life like mine had ended here, and it didn't matter how many times I'd seen deaths in movies, it wasn't the same, and I wasn't ever going to forget it.”
Source: The Darkest Powers Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Summoning, The Awakening, The Reckoning
“A girl need not necessarily have the perfect start in life to fulfill such a dream.”
Source: The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life
“A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.”
“A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond”
“A girl never knows when she might need a couple of diamonds at 10 o'clock in the morning.”
“A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?”
Source: Romola: In Two Volumes
“A girl offered me E at the club. 'Have you ever done E?' 'I watch E.'”
“A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.”
“A girl or woman that drinks or smokes is very unlikely to still be a virgin.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.”
“A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.”
“A girl running away from a woman's life. She leaves behind everything she has ever known, and escapes to the city, disowned, alone, but free.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“A girl's gotta get her glam on when the world turns its back on her.”
“A girl's gotta have her Mystery.
You can hardly win at poker if your cards lay bare on the table for all to see...
One need be Strategic...”
“A girl's sense of her womanly self depends only in part on how closely she has followed her mother's example in attire and actions, or how much she loves or hates or respects her. It is from both parents that a girl gains her basic identity.”
Source: Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life
“A girl said, 'I wrote myself a letter', so I said 'What did it say?' and she said, 'I don't know, I won't get it til tomorrow'.
A boy said, 'I'm really glad my mum called me Jack'. I said, 'Why's that?' He said, 'Cause all the kids at school call me that'.”
Source: The Hypnotiser
“a girl should be a butterfly, beautiful,delicate, but hard to catch”
“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
Source: Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
“A girl should command attention, not suffer it.”
“A girl should get so lost in God, that a guy has to seek God to find her!”
“A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.”
“A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique
“A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.”
“A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.”
Source: Matilda
“A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird. Her long slender bare legs were delicate as a crane's and pure save where an emerald trail of seaweed had fashioned itself as a sign upon the flesh. Her thighs, fuller and soft-hued as ivory, were bared almost to the hips, where the white fringes of her drawers were like feathering of soft white down. Her slate-blue skirts were kilted boldly about her waist and dovetailed behind her. Her bosom was as a bird's, soft and slight, slight and soft as the breast of some dark-plumaged dove. But her long fair hair was girlish: and girlish, and touched with the wonder of mortal beauty, her face.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.”
“A girl that shows me that I am enough.”
Source: A Bánh Mì for Two
“A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.”
“A girl what's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.”
“A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.”
“A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.”
“A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.”