Boys Quotes - Page 15

• A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Girl, Islamic, People

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• You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.

  Woody Guthrie

  Sea, Oil, Singing

  Song: Keep That Oil A-Rollin'

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• Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Father, Men, Desire

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

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• In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.

  Chris Matthews

  Fun, Night, World

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

  Aidan Quinn

  Baseball, Eight, Years

  "Fictional character: Joe O'Malley". "Stolen Summer", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• 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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• I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.

  Ice Cube

  Heart, Nuts, Games

  "Ice Cube's Return to Gangsta [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. January 15, 2014.

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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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• I have a soft spot for bad boys.

  Pamela Anderson

  Bad Boy, Spots

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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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• My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone.

  Don Henley

  Summer, Strong, My Love For You

  Song: The Boys of Summer, Album: Building the Perfect Beast

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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 dont understand boys - just ask my husband.

  Arabella Weir

  Husband, My Husband, Asks

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• I'd never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!

  Rick Ross

  Life, Girl, Daughter

  Song: All The Money In The World, Album: Teflon Don

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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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• 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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• I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.

  Kim Alexis

  Jesus, New York, Cities

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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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• Little boys have amazing minds.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Mind, Littles, Little Boys

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

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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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• Tears came to my eyes when I read of a mere boy in one of our eastern cities who noticed a vagrant asleep on a sidewalk and who then went to his own room, retrieved his own pillow, and placed it beneath the head of that one whom he knew not. Perhaps there came from the precious past the welcome words: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matt. 25:40).

  Thomas S. Monson

  Eye, Past, Cities

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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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