Boy And Girl Quotes

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  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 for service and honor.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Boys

  Letter to Senator George H. Moses on June 14, 1928. "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover", volume 2, p. 195, 1952.

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• If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

  George Lucas

  Girl, Sunset, Boys

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• Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Stars, Children

  Song: Dreamland, Album: Party Doll And Other Favorites, 1999

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• Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

  William Haley

  Girl, Education, Teacher

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• Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times.

  Betsey Johnson

  Funny, Girl, Fashion

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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 answering.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.

  Dave Matthews

  Love, Relationship, Boyfriend

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Hard Times, Animal

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

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• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, "really hot."

  Jack Antonoff

  Girl, Boys, Way

  "fun. Interview with Jack Antonoff". Interview with Courtney Kenfick, www.seventeen.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Girl, Boys, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

  James S. Coleman

  Girl, School, Boys

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• The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.

  Edward Steichen

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

  Gilbert Highet

  Girl, Giving Up, Teaching

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring rock and roll music closer to the people. Gratefully yours

  Thurston Moore

  Music, Girl, Song

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• It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Boys, Quality

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• Every limbo boy and girl, all around the limbo world. Gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock.

  Chubby Checker

  Girl, Boys, Rocks

  Song: Limbo Rock

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• When I got the beat, in my imagination I was catapulted into this club where all the boys and girls are looking hot and wearing amazing clothes, and there's this girl dancing and looking better than me.

  Katy B

  Girl, Boys, Clothes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Girl, Jesus, Children

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• Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Education, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.185, Rajpal & Sons

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• I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.

  Jennifer Lee

  Girl, Character, Boys

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• 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 obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Mean

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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• Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Girl, Morning, Children

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.119

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• Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Education, Children

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

  Mother Jones

  Girl, Boys, Hands

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• When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.

  Paul Potts

  Girl, Boys, Play

  Paul Potts (1960). “Dante Called You Beatrice”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode

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