Girl Scout Week (Girl Scouts of The USA)
In the Girl Scouts of the USA, the equivalent holiday is Girl Scout Sunday or Girl Scout Sabbath, celebrated in Girl Scout Week the week that includes March 12, the day the first Girl Scout troop was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia in 1912.
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Famous quotes containing the words girl, scout, week and/or scouts:
“Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.”
—Irish proverb.
“Simone Clouseau: Jacques would make a wonderful father. He has many redeeming qualities, you know.
Sir Charles: Name one.
Simone Clouseau: Oh, he’s kind, loyal, faithful, obedient.
Sir Charles: You’re either married to a boy scout or a dachshund.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
“It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“The medieval town, with frieze
Of boy scouts from Nagoya?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)