Boy Quotes
5029 quotes by 3097 authors
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The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation,…
— Sam Hughes
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I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!
— Mark Twain
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Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?
— Lee Wulff
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Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties.…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped…
— Mother Jones
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I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is…
— Noy Holland
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Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.
— Alexa Chung
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When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.
— Bernard Lagat
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One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. Most people –…
— Jim Rogers
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We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much…
— Christina Hoff Sommers
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N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard
— Edmund White
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I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.
— Antonio Carlos Jobim
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Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.
— Shai Agassi
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Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness…
— Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to…
— Paul Potts
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I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest -- sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they…
— Charlie Munger
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
— Quintilian
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I don’t want long hair, I don’t want short hair, I don’t want hair at all, and I don’t want to be a girl or…
— Sherman Alexie
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