Boys Quotes - Page 28

• A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?

  Mason Cooley

  Wall, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.

  James A. Baldwin

  Keys, Order, Needs

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• In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

  Mark Twain

  Towns, Small Town, Poor

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.339, Penguin

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• Then let not what I cannot have
  My cheer of mind destroy.
  Whilst thus I sing, I am a king,
  Although a poor blind boy!

  Colley Cibber

  Kings, Cheer, Mind

  Colley Cibber, “The Blind Boy”

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• Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus:
  For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.

  Allen Tate

  Country, Venus, Matter

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

  Nora Ephron

  Sex, Dirty, Men

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.150, Vintage

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• Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
  Whatever they are.

  Philip Larkin

  Girl, Dream, Women

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys,
  There is but one a bad one;
  The tenth is he, the parson's fee,
  And indeed he is a sad one.
  No love of fame, no sense of shame,
  And a bad heart, let me tell ye:
  Without, all brass; within, all ass,
  And the puppy's name is Felly.

  Horace Walpole

  Father, Heart, Names

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• Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp.... Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him." "He's all over the place...." The complaints are tinged with more than a little pride at the boy's marvelous independence and masculine bravado. It's almost as though the mother enjoyed being overwhelmed by her spectacular conquering hero.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Running, Hero

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• The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Work, Hands

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

  Abraham Maslow

  Girl, God, Long

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• For little boys are rancorous
  When robbed of any myth,
  And spiteful and cantankerous
  To all their kin and kith.
  But little girls can draw conclusions
  And profit from their lost illusions.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Children, Littles

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy: it is shared withthe other guys. It is a code of conduct that requires men to maintain masculine postures and attitudes (however they are defined) at all times and in all places. Masculinity includes the symbols, uniforms, chants, and plays that make this the boys' team rather than the girls' team.

  Frank Pittman

  Girl, Attitude, Team

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• In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.

  Frank Pittman

  Memories, Simple, Men

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• At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Believe, Home

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• I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.

  Frank Pittman

  Beautiful, Girl, Cutting

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• Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.

  Bill Murray

  Advice, Matter, Remember

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• If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Girl, Choices, Generations

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• Silly girls your heads full of boys

  John Ashbery

  Girl, Silly, Silly Girl

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.

  Gerda Lerner

  Girl, Adventure, Motherhood

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• Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody.

  Patrick Califia

  Christian, Teacher, Religious

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• Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

  Sidney Buchman

  Country, Book, Reading

  "Fictional character: Jefferson Smith". "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• ... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sex, Believe, Book

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• Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.

  Michael Lewis

  Girl, Teacher, Attitude

  Michael Lewis (1995). “Shame: The Exposed Self”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again...".

  Eva Longoria

  Grandma, Kissing, Tv Shows

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