Boys Quotes - Page 22

• If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

  Anne Bronte

  Mother, Home, Despise

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.40, Diversion Books

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• The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Silly, Fighting, Toys

  "A Picnic of Poems: In Allah's Green Garden". Book by Dawud Wharnsby, 2011.

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• We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband.

  James Farley

  Husband, Competition, Corporations

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• Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Girl, Waiting, Revolution

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• The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Christmas, Littles, Drummer

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• It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.567, Modern Library

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• My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.

  Ana Tijoux

  Kids, Years, Interesting

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• Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Girl, School, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.186, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.

  Edward T. Lowe, Jr.

  Mind, Strange, Mystery

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• We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Horse, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  School, Heart, Understanding

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.196, Booklassic

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• A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Ocean, Clouds

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• Why aren't I like other boys?

  Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

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

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• What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Teacher, Years, Parent

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Dream, Sex

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• I got my eye on you boy, and when I get my eye on something, it's like search and destroy.

  Paris Hilton

  Eye

  Song: Not Leaving Without You, Album: Paris, 2006

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• I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

  Ray Kroc

  Book, Thinking, Bored

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.16, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.

  Gary Busey

  Want, Tough, Planets

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• Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

  Alan Beck

  Cutting, Hair, Pockets

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• I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

  Om Puri

  Character, Years, Film

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• Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clothes, Environmental, Coats

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.24, Graphic Arts Books

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• Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a little rain What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain The gentle rain that falls for years And the grass is gone and the boy disappears And the rain keeps falling like helpless tears And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky The leaves nod their heads as the breeze blows by Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye And what have they done to the rain?

  Malvina Reynolds

  Fall, Rain, Eye

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• Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Mean, Sleep

  1597-8 King Henry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.1, l.25-31.

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• I believe that this was God's Will - to send a boy into the Reich, to let him become its Leader, in order to bring his home country into the Reich. Otherwise one must doubt Providence.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Believe, Home

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• My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

  Robert Lacey

  School, Sunday, Cambridge University

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