Boys Quotes

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  My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

  Harmon Killebrew

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

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

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• Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

  Jim Henson

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Son, Stories

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Christmas Stories”, p.441, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

  Plato

  Leadership, Children, Humorous

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• One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Practice, Experience, Needs

  Charles Dudley Warner (2005). “Being A Boy”, p.5, 1st World Publishing

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• Girls fall in love with what they hear. Boys fall in love with what they see. That’s why girls wear make-up and boys lie.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Girl, Falling In Love, Lying

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• When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

  Joseph Heller

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

  Joseph Heller (1974). “Something Happened”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• A boy's will is the wind's will.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thank You, Children, Son

  'My Lost Youth' (1858)

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• The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Morning, Believe, Yesterday

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• There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Baby Boy, Son

  1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.25.

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• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  Robert Frost

  Mothers Day, Mom, Women

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• Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

  Toni Morrison

  Fear, Black, Target

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• But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

  John Thorn

  Dream, Stars, Men

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• We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Asian, Vietnam

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Football, School

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• Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Smart, Female, Ass

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• Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

  Corey Haim

  Roles, My Favorite, Lost

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• When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

  George Burns

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  George Burns (1986). “Dear George: advice & answers from America's leading expert on everything from A to B”, G K Hall & Co

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• Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

  George Will

  Gun, Ducks, Giving

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Love, Men, Littles

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

  Eric Sevareid

  Men, Order, Want

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• The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

  Eric Berne

  Nature, Equality, Birds Wings

  ERIC BERNE, M.D. (1964). “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

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• Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Girly, Hate, Games

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

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• Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

  James Thurber

  Thank You, Children, Baby Boy

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