Boy Quotes

5029 Boy quotes by 2960 unique authors

A boy has to peddle his book. — Truman Capote
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark… — Norman Douglas
I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning,… — Anne Tyler
I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me. — Lincoln Steffens
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why -… — Alistair Cooke
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman
All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see… — Burgess Meredith
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men. — Henry Ward Beecher
When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to… — Louis L'Amour
The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any… — James Dobson
Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy. — Stephanie Mills
A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man. — Herbert Hoover
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an… — Herbert Hoover
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

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