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Quotes About Girl

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…
~ Louisa May Alcott
The right string had been touched, and even French exercises and piano practice became endurable, since accomplishments would be useful by and by; dress, manners, and habits were all interesting now, because 'mind and body, heart and soul, must be cultivated', and while training to become an 'intelligent, graceful, healthy girl', little Josie was unconsciously fitting herself to play her part well on whatever stage the great Manager might prepare for her.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Even Polly seemed impressed, for he called her a good girl, blessed her buttons, and begged her to come and take a walk, dear, in his most affable tone.
~ Louisa May Alcott
It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.
~ Ross MacDonald
He's got one passenger aboard–a girl." "A girl?" repeated Dave, staring somewhat mystified at the approaching vehicle. "Yes." "That's queerer still," remarked the young aviator.
~ Roy Rockwood
the village. There he saw a little girl holding
~ Rudyard Kipling
and my coffee is Blue Mountain and I drink it black, which is unusual for a teenage girl, but it's definitely the way good coffee should be drunk if you have any respect for the bitter beans.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
How to be listed as a dream in the mind of a young girl is an art, going out is a masterpiece.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
El azar propicio aparece tan rara vez que cuando se presenta o se encuentra, hay que saberlo agarrar con toda la fuerza; el seducir a una muchacha no es un arte, pero sí lo es, ¡y cómo!, saber encontrar a una muchacha que merezca que se la seduzca.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
A intra ca un vis în gândurile unei fete e o art?,a reuÅŸi s?-i ieÅŸi din gând e o capodoper?
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
~ S.J. Perelman
... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.
~ Elizabeth Missing Sewell
By the time spring had fully bloomed, he would be flying. He would never be far from the girl who had been born on a snowy day, whose father had come home from the sea so that he could tell her every story he knew, whose sister took her in her arms to read to her, whose mother would teach her all she needed to know.
~ Alice Hoffman
life. She was only a girl and exhausted from her journey, but she would do as she must in order to survive.
~ Alice Hoffman
With silver and a wagon to take you to Boston or New York. I can keep the girl.
~ Alice Hoffman
Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous, even if the person in question is a girl who has recently turned twelve.
~ Alice Hoffman
It is all about a girl who is more interested in politics than in love... the Russian censors will not let it be published and the world outside will not want it because it is so Russian.
~ Alice Munro
Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose to tell it, even to one person at a time.
~ Alice Sebold
All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.
~ Alice Walker
People said it was a song about drugs, but John Lennon said the name came from a picture his son painted of a girl at school.
~ Aminatta Forna
Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention. Long as guilt's your biggest problem, girl..." Rikke saw the faint gleam of Isern's teeth in the gathering darkness. "Things can't be that bad".
~ Joe Abercrombie
Guilt is a luxury reserved for those still breathing and with no unbearable pain, cold or hunger demanding all their fickle attention. Long as guilt's your big problem, girl…" Rikke saw the faint gleam of Isern's teeth in the gathering darkness. "Things can't be that bad.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He looked around his quarters. Or Davoust's quarters. That's where an old wizard terrified me in the middle of the night. That's where I watched the city burn. That's where I was nearly eaten by a fourteen-year-old girl. Ah, the happy memories . . .
~ Joe Abercrombie