Boy Quotes
5029 Boy quotes by 2960 unique authors
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class…
— Cormac McCarthy
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It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.
— Herman Melville
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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
— Leo Tolstoy
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She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely,…
— Jane Austen
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not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.
— John Barth
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I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
— Woody Allen
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The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place…
— Lois Lowry
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
— Neil Gaiman
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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me,…
— Oscar Wilde
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Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.
— Susan Minot
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Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
— Rick Riordan
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...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he…
— Toni Morrison
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In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
— Robert Jordan
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Women are the worst. They zero in on some guy.Oh boy, he's the one, gotta get me that one. So they do. Then they spend…
— Nora Roberts
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I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.
— Meg Cabot
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
— Emile Zola
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Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life…
— Nicole Krauss
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There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears…
— Cecily von Ziegesar
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Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news,"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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