Boys Quotes - Page 13

• I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great, I mean I didn't know either, y'know, that these little boys, y'know, I was very impressed. I think they'll probably be around in 20 years writing good songs, and being a great band.

  Stevie Nicks

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

  D. H. Lawrence

  Somewhere Else, Ideas, Doe

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• The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.

  Jennifer Echols

  Dog, Practice, Two

  Jennifer Echols (2013). “Levitating Las Vegas”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

  Robert Gottlieb

  Naughty, English Love

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• I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

  Simon Van Booy

  People, Paper, Lines

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.24, Oneworld Publications

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• Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

  Fred Dibnah

  Teaching, Cake, Empires

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• I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'

  Bernie Siegel

  Cancer, Doctors, Office

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• I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.

  Francine Prose

  Sports, Kids, Loss

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• I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Heart, First Love, Broken

  "Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters: An Interview". Interview with Meg Waite Clayton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Cups, Different, World

  "Daniel Alarcón" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

  Anthony Browne

  Book, Picture Books, Saws

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• Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Girl, Acceptance, Thinking

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• When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body and face burned. I felt mortified. I contemplated suicide.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Girl, Suicide, Teacher

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• Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Self, Skills

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• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  Sadie Jones

  Horse, Children, Wyoming

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• Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more of a papas boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Father, Mama, Papa

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• Boys do what they can; men do what they want

  Project Pat

  Men, Want

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• When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Moon, Doctors, Becoming A Doctor

  "Olivier Theyskens On Creativity & Commerce, Obama & Middleton, And Being Naked". Interview with Blue Carreon, www.forbes.com. October 24, 2011.

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• There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.

  Henry Ford

  Country, Growing Up, Abolition Of Slavery

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• As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

  Mark Twain

  Feelings, Teeth, Saws

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• It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

  Red Smith

  Running, Men, Moral

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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

  America, Goes On, Coats

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• "Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

  Charles Dickens

  Want, Flesh, Said

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.64

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• "You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.51

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• He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Character, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1863). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.200

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