Boy Quotes

5029 Boy quotes by 2960 unique authors

What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and… — Dan Chaon
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever… — John Irving
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve… — Paulo Coelho
Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we… — James A. Owen
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at… — Vladimir Nabokov
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight… — Dave Eggers
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity… — Herbert Hoover
And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. — Lewis Carroll
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in… — William S. Burroughs
Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases! — Lewis Carroll
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was… — James Joyce
Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad. — Sharon Creech
Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad… — Robert A. Heinlein
You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes… — Cecily von Ziegesar
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think… — C.S. Lewis
I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we… — William Shakespeare
Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work. — Sarah Rees Brennan
I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly… — Caroline B. Cooney
Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It was… — Cecily von Ziegesar
I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me… — Woodrow Wilson
Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that… — E. Nesbit
Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure. — Paulo Coelho
Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the… — C.S. Lewis

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