Boys Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  1836-7 Sam Weller's father. Pickwick Papers, ch.33.

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• "Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Mother, Father

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.87

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• If someone had to lose weight, I would tell that person to lose weight. Lose some weight, why can't you take care of yourself. When I say this, the person might think, 'Look who's talking,' but I would reply, 'I'm a boy and you're a girl.'

  Shindong

  Girl, Thinking, Talking

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• I love everything special or unique. Sometimes I love girly clothes, sometimes I love strong boy looks. You never know what is the next look of Ming.

  Ming Xi

  Girly, Strong, Unique

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• Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

  Belle Boyd

  Children, Son, Mind

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• As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

  John Gokongwei

  School, Goal, Trying

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• I don't know so much about my boys, but my girls, they all work with me. They know how to work. My daughters know it's not done till it's done, even if it's three or four in the morning. I don't want them to grow up with entitlement.

  Marie Osmond

  Girl, Daughter, Morning

  "Marie Osmond will never get over son's suicide, cried when daughter said she was gay". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.

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• What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a boy you didn't love took you to the movies; now and then you actually had a conversation with someone. The rest of the time -the hours that weren't accounted for-you spent waiting for something to happen to you; when you were particularly desperate, you went out looking for it.

  Joyce Johnson

  Night, Class, Waiting

  Joyce Johnson (2014). “Come and Join the Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Scouting contributes to a boy's preparation to hold the priesthood of God. Scout leaders have a sacred responsibility. They help boys learn Scouting principles that also help them live the gospel. We thank each leader as they foster faith in Christ and prepare boys to make temple covenants and become a missionary, husband, and father.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Husband, Father, Responsibility

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• Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Fighting, Exercise, Men

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1888). “Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport”

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• General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Arrogance, Bad Boy, Arcs

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• In climbing, a fundamental thing is to want to do something you've never done before. That's the beauty of climbing, whether you're a girl or boy, seasoned veteran or beginner. You're not sure you'll be able to do this, but you try, and discovering you are capable is an amazing experience and an amazing feeling.

  Chris Sharma

  Girl, Climbing, Feelings

  Source: espn.go.com

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• When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Writing

  "Interview with Paulo Coelho: best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

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• We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.

  Robin Williams

  College, Opposites, Ivy

  Source: www.rd.com

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• Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.

  Emily Yoffe

  Girl, Excess, World

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Mormon leaders said in a statement they will reexamine their ties to the Boy Scouts. "The church," they said, "has always welcomed all boys to its Scouting units regardless of sexual orientation. However, the admission of openly gay leaders is inconsistent with the doctrines of the church and what have traditionally been the values of the Boy Scouts of America."

  Gwen Ifill

  Gay, America, Ties

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Hands, Years

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.151, U of Nebraska Press

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• All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Money, Play, Dull

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