Boy Quotes

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I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created… — Gilbert Highet
Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise,… — Germaine Greer
A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and… — Robert Benchley
... every little boy thinks he invented sin. — John Steinbeck
Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he… — Arthur Miller
I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership -… — Gunter Grass
Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard… — Arthur Miller
In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with… — George Mikes
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free… — Barbara Ehrenreich
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,… — Andrea Dworkin
A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of… — Boy George
I've been into golf, trying to get into the gym to stay somewhat fit. I've got two boys now, they're active kids. — Pete Sampras
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys. — Paul Engle
I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be. — Huston Smith
Yes, I'm a real southern boy. — Billy Carter
I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when… — Ann Beattie
There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls. — Miriam Makeba
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height… — Bhartrhari
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century. — Norman MacCaig

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