A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.”
Source: Fall of Giants: Enhanced Edition
“A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.”
Source: Songs and entertainment of Miss E.L. Williams, the Welsh nightingale ...
“A baby was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life and soul into ;D”
“A baby wasn't an idea, as love was an idea. A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn't care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you. A baby was the oldest deal there was, to go on living.”
Source: The Passage
“A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
“A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.”
“A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal.”
“A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“A baby's mother also needs a mother.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
“A baby, a real live baby was the craziest thing a fan has sent. Someone left a baby on our front doorstep with a note that they wanted us to raise it. Of course, we contacted the authorities and they took care of the baby.”
“A bachelor, a studio, those were the names for that kind of apartment. Separate entrance it would say in the ads, and that meant you could have sex, unobserved.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale
“A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.”
Source: The Blithedale Romance
“A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.”
“A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.”
“A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.”
“A bachelor is only half a man”
“A bachelor-life carries the burden of study and observes all subjects; thereupon, marital-life embraces that to qualify and prove mutual life in love and courteous grade.”
“A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.”
“A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.”
Source: Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble
“A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.”
“A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
“A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.”
“A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.”
Source: Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.”
Source: Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ
“A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.”
“A backlit mist bathed the Cascade foothills in silver as Justin and I pledged our love before a justice of the peace. Standing in the same lush mountains where we’d first met, we exchanged rings, grinning on a stone stage in a fog-flowered forest clearing.”
Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
“A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.”
“A backward glance can often lift the heart.”
Source: Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation
“A backyard for me is more being with the people around you, your friends. I think that's what defines your home; not your actual, physical home. When you travel a lot, what makes you feel at home is when your friends whom you know really well are there, your girlfriend.”
“A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.”
“A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.”
“A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“A bad attitude from a chronic complaining employee is like a cancer; it will only spread and infect others. This can take your business down in a nanosecond. You must cut out the cancer and invite them to seek employment elsewhere. Quickly.”
Source: #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
“A bad attitude is symptomatic of impaired judgment and unbalanced reasoning.”
Source: A Few Choice Words: A Collection of Inspirational and Motivational Discourses
“A bad attitude is the only true handicap.”
“A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.”
“A bad attitude makes it more difficult to reach our full potential, to strive for greatness, to live productive and purposeful lives.”
Source: A Few Choice Words: A Collection of Inspirational and Motivational Discourses
“A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.”
“A bad beginning does not keep you from a good ending.”
“A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.”
Source: The Sign of Jonas
“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
“A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.”
“A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.”
“A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.”
“A bad boy can be very good for a girl.”
Source: Girl Stays in the Picture
“A bad boy with a good heart, I think that would be perfect for me.”
“A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.”
“A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.”