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Quotes About Girl Scouts

As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.
~ Anna Maria Chavez
In 1976, I was invited to interview for the CEO position of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
~ Frances Hesselbein
And I wish whoever chooses the spots for these ceremonies could quit the Bela Lugosi bullshit. It's always a crypt. It's always a cemetery or a spooky old mansion where a family was murdered by a serial killer or angry Girl Scouts when they didn't buy enough cookies.
~ Richard Kadrey
Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember what it was that kept the American family together: women's blood.
~ Joan Acocella
What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.
~ Loni Love
Girl Scouts helps girls make decisions that are right for them and offer support.
~ Frances Hesselbein
Our family loves Girl Scout cookies and I don't think allowing a boy in the Girl Scouts is a good thing.
~ Jim Bob Duggar
I've been so impressed with the kinds of thoughtful questions that I've gotten from young people, from Girl Scouts, from teenagers.
~ Katie Hill
Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts.
~ Shirley Jackson
Leslie Faber always enjoyed belonging to organizations and institutions. The basketball team, the softball team, the church youth group and the Girl Scouts; they all gave her a sense of significance. The uniforms she wore for the sports teams and the Girl Scouts conferred an official status, an attachment that the rest of her life sometimes seemed to lack.
~ Bernard Lefkowitz
Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.
~ Anna Maria Chavez
Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.
~ Anna Maria Chavez
At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.
~ Anna Maria Chavez
Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.
~ Stephanie
Girl Snouts." "We are not," contradicted Sarah. "We're Girl Scouts." "Hup, two, three, four. Hup, two, three, four," counted Mrs. Collins, who was the jolly type and did not understand how parents sometimes embarrass their children. Down the hill marched the class. Mitchell felt Bernadette's toe on his heel again and jumped in time.
~ Beverly Cleary
Ask me why I never joined a sorority. I went to college in Georgia. Still... never tempted. Why?" *lady in leather making speech with man tided to alter* "That's why. Delta Delta Delta. Kiwanis. Girl Scouts. They all lead here-- to the basement of the Hellfire Club.
~ Chelsea Cain
The Girl Scouts allow homosexuals and atheists to join their ranks, and they have become a pro-abortion feminist training corps. If the Girl Scouts of America can't get back to teaching real character, perhaps it will be time to look for our cookies elsewhere.
~ Hans Zeiger
What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.
~ Haven Kimmel
Librarians' values are as sound as Girl Scouts': truth, free speech, and universal literacy. And, like Scouts, they possess a quality that I think makes librarians invaluable and indispensable: they want to help . They want to help us . They want to be of service. And they're not trying to sell us anything.
~ Marilyn Johnson
Last year Nicole called me on the phone and told me she just became a Cookie," Aunt Michele explained to the whole room of ladies. "It took me a long time to figure out she meant she was a Brownie—you know the younger Girl Scouts?
~ Melanie Marks