Evolution Of A Girl Quotes

#1. The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

Lyle W. Dorsett

#2. Riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago, and with only a very sketchy idea of the problems of administering Imperial

Paul Scott

#3. When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.

Crystal Woods

#4. Is this a date? I mean, like, right now? You and me?"
"I don't know, Molly Barlow. Do you want it to be?

Katie Cotugno

#5. Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

Bernard Bailyn

#6. The mind is a mine. So often we revisit its winding, unsound caverns when we ought to stay out.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#7. If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!

Catherynne M Valente

#9. We have to make decisions, and we can't make them if they're based on fear.

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. Fate has blessed me.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#11. The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life.

Ted Andrews

#12. When you are with the people you like, you tend to be happier.

Tomoko Hayakawa

#13. Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Walter Raleigh

#14. The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.

Robert Alan Aurthur

#15. She's the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She's the self-made girl!
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Well, to begin with, the self-made girl's a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn't self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her.

Henry James

#16. In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government.

James A. Garfield

#17. For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.

Denis Thatcher