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Boy Quotes by Mark Twain
- The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
- It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
- As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come…
- I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly…
- I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!
- George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
- When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
- In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man
- in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
- There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
- A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away…
- Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing…
- When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
- There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure
- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
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- On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have,… — Dr Robert H Goddard
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very… — Jensen Ackles
- I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't… — Amy Adams
- I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions… — A. C. Benson
- The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. — Buffalo Bill