Quotes of: Scouting Keyword

Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them — and what they should think about themselves.

DaShanne Stokes

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

Elvis Costello

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happ...

Evangeline Lilly

When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.

Diane Ackerman

[about Jem] Scout: You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep. Couldn't if he was awake, though; he wouldn't let you. Go ahead.

To Kill a Mockingbird

[Billy's scouts are dismissive of Scott Hatteberg because he walks a lot] Billy Beane: He gets on base a lot. Do I care if it's a walk or a hit?

Moneyball

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and ...

Juliette Gordon Low

Guard: Hello, can I speak to Mr Hawkins, please? John Chambers: I'm sorry he's out of the country on a Location Scout, can I take a message? Guard: [Hangs up]

Argo

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 rig...

Anna Maria Chavez

Scout out competitors’ websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.

The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.

The Haunted Baronet And Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious.

Hopeless

Women love a man in uniform. You should see them drool when I dress up in my Girl Scout outfit.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliati...

Casey Wilson

I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. I...

Bill Belichick

So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's ...

Roy Clark

Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.

Jeff Dunham

Atticus Finch: Good Afternoon Miss Dubose... My, you look like a picture this afternoon. Scout: [hiding behind Atticus whispering to Jem and Dill] He don't say a picture of what.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Social Services: [to Scout Master Ward and Captain Sharp] You two are the most appallingly incompetent custodial guardians Social Services has ever had the misfortune to encounter in a TWENTY-SEVEN year career!

Moonrise Kingdom

[after an argument about Billy's statistical approach to baseball instead of trusting his scouts] Billy Beane: I'm not gonna fire you, Grady. Grady Fuson: Fuck you, Billy. Billy Beane: Now I will.

Moneyball