Boys Quotes - Page 29

• As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.

  Mitch Glazer

  Beautiful, Kids, Lobster

  "EXCLUSIVE: Mitch Glazer Talks Passion Play". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 29, 2011.

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• I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

  Cokie Roberts

  Children, Als, Done

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• For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• ...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Sex, Opportunity, Should Have

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  My Boys

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Team, Men

  Bill Walton (1995). “Nothing But Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way”, Hyperion

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• Black Poets should live--not leap
  From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

  Etheridge Knight

  Bridges, White, Poetry

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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• My genius from a boy
  Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
  But could not thus confined her power employ,
  Impatient to depart.

  George Moses Horton

  Heart, Bird, Genius

  George Moses Horton (1997). “The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry”, p.121, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Struggle, College

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.

  Michael Specter

  Children, Years, Risk

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.

  Rob Corddry

  Teenager, People, Boy Scout

  "Rob Corddry Talks ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, Voicing His First Animated Feature, Earning an Eagle Scout Badge, WARM BODIES and PAIN & GAIN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.

  Stella Chess

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Hands, Years, Interesting

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• Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now.

  Tim Federle

  Teenage, Perfect, Agendas

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• Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place

  Nelson Mandela

  Girl, Men, People

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 26, 2016

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• At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Bill said, 'Boy, did they get the wrong number.'

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Numbers, Wrong Number

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• Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

  John Amos Comenius

  Girl, Children, Powerful

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• Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.

  Grant Wood

  Triumph, Riding, Hay

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• Boy, I feel more and more undeserving each moment !!

  Hrithik Roshan

  Moments, Undeserving, Feels

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• Do I look like I know how to twerk? I'm a small blonde boy.

  Ashton Irwin

  Blonde, Looks, Know How

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• The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Girl, Sweet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.310, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

  James Polshek

  Littles, Way, Architecture

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• I was going to be the best paper boy ever. I used my Sting-Ray bike and got the papers there after school. People know I porched everything. No roofs, no lawns. I stopped the bike and nailed it. And if I ever missed, I would go pick it up and do it right.

  Gary Carter

  School, People, Paper

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• The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

  John McGraw

  Desire, Necks, Talent

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• Since we have had this baby with us, I have never again wondered why I never got pregnant. There is no doubt in my mind that God, in His wonderful way, was saving us to be the parents of this wonderful little boy.

  Kathleen Silber

  Baby, Parent, Mind

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