Boys Quotes - Page 11

• As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.

  Gunter Brus

  Echoes, Experts, Shy

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Country, Cities, Different

  "Going Deep with Hall of Fame Quarterback Terry Bradshaw". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

  John Mellencamp

  Religious, Sunday, Grandmother

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• At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Hurt, Father

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• I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

  Harland Williams

  Character, Voice, Tape

  "Harland Williams knew he was destined for greatness". Interview with Christian Williams, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

  Lennie James

  Sports, School, London

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

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• I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

  Anushka Sharma

  Beach, Rocks, Alternatives

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• I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.

  Arabella Weir

  Husband, My Husband, Asks

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• I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

  Rupert Graves

  Way, Rebellious, Arthur

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

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• Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Dream, Stars, Space

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• I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.

  Gene Autry

  Strong, Uncles, Ambition

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• The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sweet, Home, Son

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1945, Library of America

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• There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

  Vikram Seth

  Posters, Burden, Feels

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  Vikas Swarup

  Bad Boy, Delhi, Bengali

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• For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

  Jon Scieszka

  Girl, Educational, Different

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• I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

  Brian Selznick

  Struggle, Moving, Writing

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• A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Feet, Sky

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.119, Penguin

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• When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Father, Moving

  Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.102, Penguin

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• Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Song, White, My Favorite

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• I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Writing, Long, Stories

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• The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

  Walter Scott

  Play

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Kenilworth”, p.102

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• Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

  James Dobson

  Girl, Individual, Assertive

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• (As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp.

  Junior Wells

  Eye, Listening, Records

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• Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?

  Terry Wogan

  Children, School, Lunch

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• One nip from a dragon and you're down? Get up, you craven school (boy/girl)!

  Gangrel

  Girl, School, Dragons

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