Guidance For Girls Quotes & Sayings

Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." - Jaime — Diana Gabaldon

Joan of Arc had led armies when she was hardly older than Harriet. Yet, for Christmas last year, Harriet's father had given Harriet an insulting board game for girls called What Shall I Be? It was a particularly flimsy game, meant to offer career guidance but no matter how well you played, it offered only four possible futures: teacher, ballerina, mother, or nurse. — Donna Tartt

For the most part, the girls of Katwe need to be told who these people are and once they learn, they want to be just like them. For Phiona Mutesi and the other teenage girls of Katwe, there are no true female role models to follow. Nothing realistic. Nothing attainable. No solid businesswoman or stable homemaker. There is no in-between for Phiona to grab onto during a very impressionable time in her life, a time when she needs a lot of guidance about becoming an adult. — Tim Crothers

Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass. — Marianne Williamson

Multiple wives are required for a godly man to get into heaven, and the prophet regularly performs spiritual marriages, deciding who should be wed to whom, placing girls to be exalted in a plural marriage based on a revelation from God. Most families wait to marry their daughters until the girl begins menstruation, as childbearing is expected within the first year of matrimony. Raising up a righteous seed unto the Lord is a woman's highest calling and it is only though a husband's guidance that a woman can attain entry into the celestial kingdom. — Michele Dominguez Greene

Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around. — Hank Ketcham

It is thus that inanimate objects seem to soak up the essence of living things, and later cause pain or pleasure when we merely look at them. — Margaret George

In ancient times, coming-of-age girls sought guidance from the wise women in their communities, but girls today are most often guided by their peers, the media, and a culture that does not honor or support them. It is a time in which girls often disconnect from themselves and start to separate from their mothers. As we begin to create more meaningful and authentic lives for ourselves, we have an opportunity for parallel journeys of growth with our daughters, journeys that would allow us to share our wisdom with them. — Terri Allison

Rock music needs very supportive bras, I note, holding onto my bosoms as I leap up and down, doggedly. This is something the music press had never mentioned. They have so little guidance for girls. — Caitlin Moran

A room without books is like a body without a soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When your wife asks you for your opinion, she doesn't really want your opinion. She wants her opinion - just in a deeper voice. — T. Rafael Cimino

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be. — Thor Heyerdahl

Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters live in a media-drenched world floded with junk values. As girls turn from their parents, they turn to this world for guidance about how to be an adult. — Mary Pipher

I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality. — Sarah Mally

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. — Jon Wynne-Tyson

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream. — William Hurt

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. — Paul A.M. Dirac

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence. — Chuck Palahniuk

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how. — Martina Boone