G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.”
“Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.”
“Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.”
“Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.”
“Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams”
Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels
“Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.”
Source: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
“Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.”
“Girls are not meant to think like this. So they say. They never ask us what we actually do think- certainly not without telling us first what it is we should be thinking.
And if we are not thinking what they have said we should then they say our thinking is wrong. If we tell them (men) what we think, they correct our thoughts. Thoughts leave our brains, exit via our mouths, hang in the air. ready to be shot down by their artillery all day long! We say we think a thing and they (men) ignore it or they (still men) say we just don't fully understand it. Then they expect silence. Or an apology. If neither is forthcoming, they look away. Perhaps they walk out a door. They rewrite the words that come out our mouths by teaching us to edit them inside our brains. No?”
Source: Luckenbooth
“Girls are nothing to be afraid of, no matter the kind. Boys, on the other hand.”
Source: Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date
“Girls are obsessed with beauty. They make this world beautiful, by being beautiful.”
Source: Finding Juliet
“Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.”
“Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.”
“Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down there they'd head for the hills.”
“Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.”
“Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?”
“Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.
--Laurie”
Source: Little Women
“Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.”
“Girls are soft and pretty.”
“Girls are stronger in numbers. So yes, I believe girls should stick together whenever possible.”
“Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.”
“Girls are supposed to dance. That's why god gave them parts that jiggle.”
“Girls are taught to be so afraid to take up any "space," even with their own bodies, and hair is a part of that. I'm glad to not be a part of that!”
“Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.”
“Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.”
Source: Coal to Diamonds
“Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment”
“Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a person, too!”
“Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.”
“Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.”
“Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.”
“Girls are the glimmer of the sunshine, the bloom of the spring, a treasure to their families. Let's give them an equal share, an opportunity to grow, fulfill their dreams, and conquer the world.”
“Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved. They noticed what we want noticed.”
Source: The Girls
“Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved. They noticed what we want noticed.
And that's what I did for Tamar, I responded to her symbols. To the style of her hair and clothes and the smell of her L'Air Du Temps perfume. Like this was data that mattered. Signs that reflected something of her inner self. I took her beauty personally.”
Source: The Girls
“Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.”
“Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.”
“Girls are very complicated creatures, they make you give up and then they say” I knew you would give up”.”
“Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.”
“Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.”
“Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.”
“Girls, as you may have noticed, are dangerous.”
Source: Sky Dragons
“Girls aside, the other thing I found in the last few years of being at school, was a quiet, but strong Christian faith – and this touched me profoundly, setting up a relationship or faith that has followed me ever since.
I am so grateful for this. It has provided me with a real anchor to my life and has been the secret strength to so many great adventures since.
But it came to me very simply one day at school, aged only sixteen.
As a young kid, I had always found that a faith in God was so natural. It was a simple comfort to me: unquestioning and personal.
But once I went to school and was forced to sit through somewhere in the region of nine hundred dry, Latin-liturgical, chapel services, listening to stereotypical churchy people droning on, I just thought that I had got the whole faith deal wrong.
Maybe God wasn’t intimate and personal but was much more like chapel was … tedious, judgemental, boring and irrelevant.
The irony was that if chapel was all of those things, a real faith is the opposite. But somehow, and without much thought, I had thrown the beautiful out with the boring. If church stinks, then faith must do, too.
The precious, natural, instinctive faith I had known when I was younger was tossed out with this newly found delusion that because I was growing up, it was time to ‘believe’ like a grown-up.
I mean, what does a child know about faith?
It took a low point at school, when my godfather, Stephen, died, to shake me into searching a bit harder to re-find this faith I had once known.
Life is like that. Sometimes it takes a jolt to make us sit and remember who and what we are really about.
Stephen had been my father’s best friend in the world. And he was like a second father to me. He came on all our family holidays, and spent almost every weekend down with us in the Isle of Wight in the summer, sailing with Dad and me. He died very suddenly and without warning, of a heart attack in Johannesburg.
I was devastated.
I remember sitting up a tree one night at school on my own, and praying the simplest, most heartfelt prayer of my life.
‘Please, God, comfort me.’
Blow me down … He did.
My journey ever since has been trying to make sure I don’t let life or vicars or church over-complicate that simple faith I had found. And the more of the Christian faith I discover, the more I realize that, at heart, it is simple. (What a relief it has been in later life to find that there are some great church communities out there, with honest, loving friendships that help me with all of this stuff.)
To me, my Christian faith is all about being held, comforted, forgiven, strengthened and loved – yet somehow that message gets lost on most of us, and we tend only to remember the religious nutters or the God of endless school assemblies.
This is no one’s fault, it is just life. Our job is to stay open and gentle, so we can hear the knocking on the door of our heart when it comes.
The irony is that I never meet anyone who doesn’t want to be loved or held or forgiven. Yet I meet a lot of folk who hate religion. And I so sympathize. But so did Jesus. In fact, He didn’t just sympathize, He went much further. It seems more like this Jesus came to destroy religion and to bring life.
This really is the heart of what I found as a young teenager: Christ comes to make us free, to bring us life in all its fullness. He is there to forgive us where we have messed up (and who hasn’t), and to be the backbone in our being.
Faith in Christ has been the great empowering presence in my life, helping me walk strong when so often I feel so weak. It is no wonder I felt I had stumbled on something remarkable that night up that tree.
I had found a calling for my life.”
Source: Mud, Sweat and Tears
“Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.”
Source: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
“Girls barely budding open their legs to make a living, alongside the toothless and rancid of breath; hair thick with lice, they all find customers if the price is right, against the wall or on sheets well-soiled. Their holes cost but a shilling. Skins grow thick and claws sharp.”
Source: The Gentlemen's Club
“Girls be like, I want someone to understand me and support me and I wont give a damn about him.”
“Girls be like 'im fine' but then they write poems in the notes app...”
“Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.”
“Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“Girls’ bodies were inspected, documented, and shared—because the state believed innocence was something it could measure.”
Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story