Boy Scout Quotes - Page 2

• My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

  Bill Nye

  Father, Boys, Ties

  "Q&A: Bill Nye on Superman's Beard, His Own Bow Tie, and the Importance of Dressing Well". Interview with Jonathan Evans, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2013.

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• My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

  Max Lucado

  Boys, Encounters, Way

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• I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Boys, Thinking

  Newt Gingrich's Address to the College Republicans at the Atlanta Airport Holiday Inn, www.pbs.org. June 24, 1978.

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• Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.

  Christopher Bram

  Kids, Gay, Boys

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• The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Boys

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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

  Army, Boys, Men

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.222, Lulu.com

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• That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

  Bill O'Reilly

  School, Army, Boys

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• This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.

  Kevin Garnett

  Girl, Boys, Nba

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• An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

  Jack McDevitt

  School, Boys, Reality

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.

  Jacques Barzun

  Integrity, Passion, Artist

  Jacques Barzun's preface to the 3rd edition of his book "Berlioz and the Romantic Century", 1969.

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• Just remember, sometimes people will put you ahead of themselves. It does happen. (Leta) Yeah, the whole world is just rainbows and puppies. Boy Scouts really do help old ladies cross the street without mugging them and no one ever ignores a trauma victim’s screams. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Rainbow, People

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• Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it's really going to hold them back if they don't.

  Bear Grylls

  Gay, Boys, Thinking

  "I Went Camping With Bear Grylls And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 22, 2014.

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• A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Likes

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• There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely." President John F. Kennedy put one aspect of the same thought into one of his state of the union messages this way: "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." The Boy Scouts say it best of all: "Be prepared." That isn't just cracker-barrel wisdom with us; it is theology. "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear." (D&C 38:30)

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Time, Fear, Boys

  Jeffrey R. Holland (1985). “However Long and Hard the Road”, Deseret Book Co

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• ...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.

  Christopher Golden

  Boys, Vampire, Bags

  Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder (2012). “Buffy the Vampire Slayer #2: Halloween Rain; Bad Bargain; AfterImage”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Boy Scouts does very well in making Scouts aware of character and integrity and … virtues and incorporate [them] in their lives so that they carry themselves as [those] kind of [people] for the rest of their [lives].

  Steve Fossett

  Integrity, Character, Boys

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• We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

  Tom Petty

  Boys, Sight, Lost

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• What are a genuine pain in the ass are all the misconceptions and outright lies. I read somewhere that in 2004 I was homeless in Seattle and drinking heavily, which came as a shock since I've never been homeless and haven't had a drink since 1982. I've also heard SEVERAL times that I'm a card-carrying member of several white-supremacist groups, when the last group I belonged to was the Boy Scouts.

  Jim Goad

  Pain, Lying, Drinking

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."

  David Copperfield

  Teacher, Kids, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.

  Suzy Parker

  Boys, America, Goes On

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• When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Fighting, Boys

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• My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.

  Terry Gross

  Mom, Dream, Crazy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Boys

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• Tod's eyes widened, and his irises swirled in tight twists of blue. "Well, I don't see that I have much of a choice, considering that's part of Reaper Law." "There's a Reaper Law?" "Of course. 'A reaper is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous...'" He shrugged. "It gets boring after that. But this situation is clearly covered under the 'helpful' category." I rolled my eyes. "I think that's the Boy Scout law." "They took it from us. But they left out all the good stuff.

  Rachel Vincent

  Eye, Thinking, Boys

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Boys, May

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