T Quotes
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“The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.”
“The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.”
“The girls I've dated hate me a little because I can't remember anything about first dates or when we kissed. I have the worst memory in the world!”
“The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).”
Source: POPism: The Warhol '60s
“The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.”
“The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. Im proud to say I was the first to stop running.”
“The girls just like to be in the shoes. They like to scuff up the floors and walk around in high-heeled shoes that are too big for them, all over the house.”
“The girls listened in silence, hypnotized, no longer caring about teachers or dorm monitors or Latin. A few sweet moments of peaceful quiet, the kind only the radio could give them, a few moments of nothing but sound from the world outside, where people were living and singing and playing songs. Normal people in a normal world.”
Source: The Broken Girls
“The girls look like they are a band already - the boys don't”
“The girls met at least one Saturday a month for brunch at Blue's Egg in Wauwatosa. It was a nice middle distance between them all and had the most incredible hash browns.”
Source: Once Upon a December
“The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.”
Source: No more mister nice guy
“The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.”
Source: Commencement
“The girls seemed unconcerned and went about their days, each as lovely in their own way as the flowers they tended. Sorrel's black hair became streaked with premature white, which gave her an exotic air, although the elegance was somewhat ruined by the muddy jeans and shorts she practically lived in. Nettie, on the other hand, had a head of baby-fine blonde hair that she wore short, thinking, wrongly, that it would look less childlike. Nettie wouldn't dream of being caught in dirty jeans and was always crisply turned out in khaki capris or a skirt and a white shirt. She considered her legs to be her finest feature. She was not wrong.
Patience was the sole Sparrow redhead, although her hair had deepened from its childhood ginger and was now closer to the color of a chestnut. It was heavy and glossy as a horse's mane, and she paid absolutely no attention to it or to much else about her appearance, nor did she have to. In the summer her wide-legged linen trousers and cut-off shorts were speckled with dirt and greenery, her camisoles tatty and damp. The broad-brimmed hat she wore to pick was most often dangling from a cord down her back. As a result, the freckles that feathered across her shoulders and chest were the color of caramel and resistant to her own buttermilk lotion (Nettie smoothed it on Patience whenever she could make her stand still). When it was terribly hot, Patience wore the sundresses she'd found packed away in the attic. She knew they were her mother's, and she liked to imagine how happy Honor had been in them.”
Source: The Sparrow Sisters
“The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.”
“The girls show up wearing nothing. I can't lie, I'm 16, I don't hate it. I don't have a girlfriend.”
“The girls that I grew up with, and my friends and I, we just never had interests in common. I loved comedy. I loved Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, and Goldie Hawn movies. I just wanted to laugh. I liked women in comedy, and I liked male comics as I got a little older. My interests just never matched up with other girls'.”
“The girls, their feet in the cold water, utter cries like a seagull's. Moreover, they are immediately transformed into seagulls, and these in turn into the obscure object of desire, swaying and waddling like the ostrich at the end of Buñuel's film. The summer has arrived.
I was very anxious she might be disappointed and I could never have forgiven her for that. I shall never forgive anyone who passes a condescending or contemptuous judgement on America.
They are at the centre of the world and they don't know it. What they prefer is to be at the centre of books and the earth.
Only sequoias have the heroic, fabulous, antediluvian stature of the first days of the world, being contemporary with the great prehistoric animals. And indeed their scaley bark resembles a carapace. They are the only trees on a par with the geological and mineral scenario of the deserts. After them it is the little species that have triumphed.”
Source: Cool memories
“The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.”
“The girls were afraid to tell the truth; the boy was afraid not to.”
Source: Dead Dog Road
“The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.”
“The girls weren't alone in this: the world is full of children picking up their parents' crumbs.”
Source: The Restless Girls
“The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure -- the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.”
“The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.”
“The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.”
Source: Diane: A Signature Life
“The girls with prettiest smiles seem to tell saddest stories”
“The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.”
“The girly movie i secretly love is Pippy Longstockings.”
“The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.”
“The gist of it was the caste (privileged) hindus wanted the power to close the door on untouchables, but on no account could untouchables be given the power to close the door on themselves. The Masters knew that Choice was Power.”
Source: Annihilation of Caste
“The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips”
“The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.”
“The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.”
Source: Gita: The Mother
“The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.”
“The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“The Gita is not for those who have no faith.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
“The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.”
“The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.”
Source: Wisdom of the Gita: Second Series
“The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth.”
“The giuggiole, or jujube fruit, resembles an olive and tastes, at first, like a woody apple. After withering off the vine, it takes on a sweeter flavor, closer to a honeyed fig. Among the medieval elite, the fruit was so popular that it gave birth to an idiom: "andare in brodo di giuggiole"--- "To go in jujube broth"--- defined in one of the earliest Italian phrase books as living in a state of bliss. Every fall, the handful of families that still cultivate the fruit in the village gather in medieval garb to celebrate the jujube and feast on the fine liquors, jams, and blissful sweet broth they create from it.
Italy is full of places like Arquà Petrarca. Microclimates and artisanal techniques become the basis for obscure local specialties celebrated in elaborate festivals from Trapani to Trieste. In Mezzago, outside Milan, its rare pink asparagus, turned red by soil rich in iron and limited sunlight. Sicily has its Avola almonds and peculiar blood-red oranges, which gain their deep color on the volcanic slopes of Mount Etna. Calabria has 'nduja sausage and the Diamante citron, central to the Jewish feast of Sukkot.”
Source: The Best American Food Writing 2023: Eye-Opening Essays on Culture, Inequality, and Justice
“The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard street was fitted out with muscle- making inventions. With the fibres thus builded up the members were wont to engage the police and rival social and athletic organisations in joyous combat. Between these more serious occupations the Saturday night hop with the paper-box factory girls came as a refining influence and as an efficient screen.”
Source: The Complete Works Of O. Henry
“The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.”
“The Giver hugged him. "I love you, Jonas," he said. "But I have another place to go. When my work here is finished, I want to be with my daughter."
Jonas had been staring glumly at the floor. Now he looked up, startled. "I didn't know you had a daughter, Giver! You told me that you'd had a spouse. But I never knew about your daughter."
The Giver smiled, and nodded. For the first time in their long months together, Jonas saw him look truly happy.
"Her name was Rosemary," The Giver said.”
Source: Giver, The
“The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still.”
“the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.”
“The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.”
Source: The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts
“The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.”