Small Boy Quotes
52 quotes by 47 authors
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I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar…
— Johnny Cash
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An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with…
— Fred Allen
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I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
— Abraham Kaplan
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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…
— Mark Twain
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A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a…
— Art Linkletter
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A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists…
— George Wald
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Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
— John Heisman
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A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will…
— Louis Kahn
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There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if…
— Auberon Waugh
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Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?
— Lee Wulff
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What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing.…
— John Heisman
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When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it…
— Edmund G. Love
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to…
— Wilfrid Noyce
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I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.
— Jerry Rice
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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
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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
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I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.
— Gerard Depardieu
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I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
Who Wrote These Small Boy Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 52 Small Boy Quotes, led by these top contributors: