Boy Quotes
5029 Boy quotes by 2960 unique authors
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When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
— Georg Brandes
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I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off…
— Jim Dale
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Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.
— Wes Fesler
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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And…
— H.G. Wells
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. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on…
— Isaac Newton
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Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any…
— David Sarnoff
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Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was…
— Max Beerbohm
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Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human…
— Walter Scott
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Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living…
— Booth Tarkington
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At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
— Paul Nurse
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
— Nancy Friday
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Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party…
— Marion Ross
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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
— Barry Mann
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A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things -…
— Gracie Allen
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But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't…
— Paul Samuelson
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Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
— Tahir Shah
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Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over…
— Davy Jones
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When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius.…
— Steven Saylor
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I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.
— Gene Ween
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I was never into smart college boy music.
— Gene Ween
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I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.
— Joseph O'Neill
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What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school.…
— Micky Dolenz
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I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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