Young Girl Quotes

#1. Vashet shook a finger and cuffed the young girl on the side of her head. It was the same scolding any child receives. Stay out of the neighbor's garden. Don't tease the Bentons' sheep. Don't play tag among the thousand spinning knives of your people's sacred tree.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. I know what to think when a young girl shivers by a warm hearth and complains of lonesomeness at her mother's side. Shall I put these feelings into words?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#3. The idea of a young girl who knows exactly what she wants with her life is the most threatening and unappealing thing you can imagine.

Allison Williams

#4. How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.

Louisa May Alcott

#5. I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

Sheryl Sandberg

#6. As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

Laura Esquivel

#7. I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

Lori Wilde

#8. When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Queen Victoria

#9. The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way.

Paula Garces

#10. Santino, come here. What's the matter with you? I think your brain is going soft with all that comedy you are playing with that young girl. Never tell anyone outside the Family what you're thinking again. Go on.

Mario Puzo

#11. When I was writing Green Girl,I was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and she's very dismissive of the young girl. She writes about the girl as being from this space of bad faith and blankness. I'm more interested in a messy space.

Kate Zambreno

#12. The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#13. Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death?
A: About 1/60 at f5.6.

Robert Capa

#14. She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

Ziauddin Yousafzai

#15. If a young girl feels comfortable to pursue her passion, we as a collective will be stronger and more equipped to face the challenges life presents.

Joanna Lohman

#16. I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be rewoven.

Louise Bourgeois

#17. Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

Anatole France

#18. The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.

J. Ruth Gendler

#20. [of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: 'I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.

Olivia Laing

#21. I'm a young girl and I want to have fun.

Amy Childs

#22. A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, 'I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!' He can capture the demon in the mirror and throw it out the window, see, although you wonder why supernatural beings would have such low-tech security holes.

Roger Ebert

#23. A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her.

Glen Duncan

#24. I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician.

Shakuntala Devi

#25. The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.

Neshka Robeva

#26. People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it's taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.

Emilia Fox

#27. And Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.

William Faulkner

#28. I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

Roger Vadim

#29. A young girl must have her lover in all courses of the sun and moon.

J.M. Synge

#30. You get on a train, you disappear.

You write your name on the window, you disappear.

There are places like this everywhere,
places you enter as a young girl
from which you never return.

Louise Gluck

#31. As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.

Teresa Medeiros

#32. If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.

Simone Weil

#33. How desperately I wanted to forsake these facts, to open a smelly old book or to go down on a pretty young girl instead. Why couldn't I have been born to a better world?

Gary Shteyngart

#34. She felt that it was only her body that was getting old. Inside she had always been the same young girl.

Jostein Gaarder

#35. I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

Lauren Conrad

#36. Don't say you'se ole. You'se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo' ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo' young girl days to spend wid me.

Zora Neale Hurston

#37. Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break. something as hard and unyielding as a block of limestone. Something that, in the end, will be her undoing and Laila's salvation.

Khaled Hosseini

#38. I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise [to wait until marriage to have sex] because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.

Katy Perry

#39. Never had I known a young girl so beautiful and at the same time so gentle and intelligent. Where were her men? Where had they failed?

Charles Bukowski

#40. I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#41. And those fingers just keep on wagging until some gay teenager hangs himself because he can't fight the fucking tornado of hatred whirling around his head, and that ill wind keeps blowing, until over in Kenya, some man lifts a knife and cuts out a young girl's clitoris? It's all connected, Dale.

Eden Connor

#42. A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.

Patricia Briggs

#43. As a young girl, and still to this day, I struggle with trying to figure everything out. Figure out why things happen, what they mean, and how they all work together. It sometimes drives me crazy. Not literally, but I do sometimes feel different. Like maybe I think too much.

J.W. Lord

#44. Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#45. I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.

Deborah Reber

#46. If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#47. When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

Tyra Banks

#48. 'Cue for Treason,' by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It really made something roar to life inside of me.

Miriam Toews

#49. As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

Karen Hughes

#50. That may be great for a married couple, but I think it is a stupid idea for two people trying to get to know each other! If you are a young man trying to get to know a young girl, for heaven's sake, don't take her to a movie!

Richard G. Scott

#51. There was a young girl named Ratchet.
She had skill and no one could match it.
She wanted to be
More stylish and carefree,
But she couldn't give up her Ratchet.

Nancy J Cavanaugh

#52. I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

Terri Windling

#53. The client wants an innocent young girl and you will fulfill that role. He doesn't want to hear your life story or why you entered this line of business. You are forbidden to discuss weighty matters or your personal life. Do you understand?

H.M. Ward

#54. How to be listed as a dream in the mind of a young girl is an art, going out is a masterpiece.

Soren Kierkegaard

#55. Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.

Anna Akhmatova

#56. When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.

Rodney Atkins

#57. As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'

Rachel Bloom

#58. Lillian Hellman wrote a play called The Little Foxes. In it a young girl tells her mother that some people eat the earth, like locusts, and others stand around and watch them do it.

Sylvain Reynard

#59. One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

Kai Bird

#60. It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.

Kevin Williamson

#61. American journalist: If you were to give advice to a woman, what would it be?
Edith Piaf: Love.
American journalist: To a young girl?
Edith Piaf: Love.
American journalist: To a child?
Edith Piaf: Love.

Edith Piaf

#62. I always tell people, if a young girl read "Beloved" as her first novel, she'd have to kill either herself or her mother, because in "Beloved" you have a mother killing their children. This is not something a child would accept very easily. And would never understand.

Walter Mosley

#63. I was a young girl the first time I learned about the concept of paying it forward.

Lynn Schusterman

#64. Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin.

Dorothy Dunnett

#65. But a sad fatality hung over this young girl. She had been given to seven husbands, all of whom had perished in the bride-chamber.

Soren Kierkegaard

#66. I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

Nancy Pelosi

#67. A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems.

Angela Carter

#68. A terrible event had broken him down. He had fallen madly in love with a young girl and married her in a kind of dreamlike ecstasy. After a year of unalloyed bliss and unexhausted passion, she had died suddenly of heart disease, no doubt killed by love itself.

Guy De Maupassant

#69. A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#70. Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,
she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

Honore De Balzac

#71. The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won't go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36.

Charles Bukowski

#72. If a young girl does not find adventure at home, then she must look for it abroad.

Jane Austen

#73. My mother implanted in me as a young girl ... you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

Hillary Clinton

#74. If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing ... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die.

Vivian Balakrishnan

#75. But sometimes I see instead the young girl's face I once spent so much time rearranging and deploring, drowned and floating just beneath my present face,

Margaret Atwood

#76. To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother.

Victor Hugo

#77. Young girls live in mythology.Their music, their moves, their relationships. Heartbreak makes them feel grown-up. Nothing a young girl wants more than to feel grown-up, and she'll lay waste to anyone for the taste of a broken heart.

Micah Nathan

#78. A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. That's how I felt seeing the Earth for the first time. I could not help but love and cherish her.

Taylor Wang

#79. Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

Guy De Maupassant

#80. As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.

Elle Varner

#81. It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

Phyllis Schlafly

#82. I was in the Vancouver airport, and I was speaking with a young girl. She asked if I was Freddie Prinze Jr., and I said I was. She kind of giggled, and while I was talking with her, her girlfriend ran up and took my sandwich. I did not call out after her ...

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#83. I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

Dorothy Malone

#84. Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.

Veronica Lake

#85. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Maya Angelou

#86. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive

Robert A. Heinlein

#87. How oft the warmth of the sun above
Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.

Gustave Flaubert

#88. That young girl," he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Anonymous

#89. The young girl looked at me, her eyes colder and brighter than the winter moon. "I am Artemis," she said. "Goddess of the Hunt.

Rick Riordan

#90. For standing at the edge of his table was the young girl with the penchant for yellow - studying him with that unapologetic interest peculiar to children and dogs. Adding

Amor Towles

#91. He was neither good looking nor ugly, and while he would not have turned a young girl's head, someone older might have been struck by his face and the evidence of passion which had left its traces. ~p17

Nicholas Shakespeare

#92. I was just a simple, young girl whose love for a boy would last until the end of time.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#93. Was the sort of jerk who would entice a young girl with candy and consider it a smart operation.

Robert A. Heinlein

#94. Fashion is a good job for a young girl. I like clothes - I like to play with clothes. I like DIY; I like to make outfit.

Liu Wen

#95. Plainly, she is quite besotted by him, ... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life ... little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.

Philippa Gregory

#96. We tell each other things that have no relation to the afternoon's events or the coming night but that relate to God, to his absence that is so present, like the breasts of the young girl, so young before the immensity of what is to come.

Marguerite Duras

#97. Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.

Lauren Willig

#98. I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

Jane Bowles

#99. My father once told me when I was a young girl that I was destined to do great things. His belief in my abilities and ambition is rooted deeply in the spirit of Malawians; resilient and determined for a better Malawi and a better Africa.

Joyce Banda

#100. Set between England and the Spanish Canary Islands, three women learn the truth about their shared past, and discover the importance of family. Spain, 1939. Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war, a young girl, Julia, enters a convent in Barcelona.

Rosanna Ley