Boys Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.

  William Upski Wimsatt

  Son, Our Generation, White

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• When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.

  Jenny Han

  Likes, Kicks

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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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• 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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• My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Healing, Home, Tv Shows

  Source: www.beliefnet.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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• 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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• There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters.... Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending even Christmas cards, never mind things, at Christmastime. But our clan gets a big kick out of opening the Warner-Lambert box containing an assortment of their wares; we argue over which of the boys is to get the Union Oil Co. necktie [and] all the holiday long we play the marvelous Christmas music sent by Goodyear.... None of these things means that Forbes or Forbeses have been had. But all of us like being thought of.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Writing, Holiday, Mean

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• Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
  Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Rain, Men, Here I Am

  "Gerontion" l. 1 (1920)

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• Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Advice, Black

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Cocktail Time”, p.85, Random House

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• I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Ambition, Sleep

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• Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Truth, Lying

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1026, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity--
  Early to bed and early to rise
  Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
  As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Men, Advice

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• My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Broken, Suffering

  Mark Twain (2014). “Short Stories And Sketches (Annotated Edition)”, p.395, Jazzybee Verlag

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• How can I ignore the Boy Next Door?

  Ralph Blane

  Doors, Next

  "Song: The Boy Next Door". Performed in the musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis" by Judy Garland, November 22, 1944.

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• Did all the lets and bars appear
  To every just or larger end,
  Whence should come the trust and cheer?
  Youth must its ignorant impulse lend--
  Age finds place in the rear.
  All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys,
  The champions and enthusiasts of the state

  Herman Melville

  Cheer, War, Champion

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.22

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• The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Friends, Sex

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.276, Herman Melville

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• Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, Feet, Land

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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