Boys Quotes - Page 34

• I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

  Ray Park

  Growing Up, Want, Grows

  Source: collider.com

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• The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets strangely subdivided among, for example, male cross-dressers, sissy boys, butch women, femme dykes, drag kings, drag queens, transvestites, intersexed, transsexuals (post-op, pre-op, and non-op).

  Kate Bornstein

  Queens, Kings, Example

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• You get to go and play with the big boys, it's a very privileged thing for us to do. So I'm sure we have more ideas than what I actually have time for.

  Sam Worthington

  Play, Ideas, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets, canteens, binoculars, these kinds of things - that leant a kind of authenticity to the games we were playing. But, of course, my father never gave me anything. So I began to question him. You know, Why don't you have anything from the war? And I think he was...embarrassed to tell me he hadn't fought, because, you know, little boys want to turn their fathers into heroes, and he didn't want to be diminished in my eyes.

  Paul Auster

  Father, War, Hero

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Children, Lying

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• You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Children, Fun, Angel

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• Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

  Henry Sidgwick

  Running, School, Society

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• Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

  Scott Thompson

  Father, Teaching, Should

  "‘Kids in the Hall’ Comic to Bullied Youth: ‘Grow a Pair’". Interview with Chris Azzopardi, pridesource.com. October 27, 2011.

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  Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Men, Games

  Ted Williams, Jim Prime (1998). “Ted Williams' Hit List”, Masters Press

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• Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

  Thomas Hughes

  Selfish, Men, Gambling

  Thomas Hughes (1857). “School Days at Rugby”, p.199

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• We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.

  Thomas Hughes

  Life, Fall, Learning

  Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.69, Litres

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• Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'

  Trey Anastasio

  Spiritual, Heart, Guitar

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• The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

  Thomas Campbell

  Baby, Mind, Actors

  Thomas Campbell (1834). “Life of Mrs. Siddons”, p.227

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• It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

  Neil Tennant

  Our World, Pet, Fundamentals

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• I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

  Alex Campbell

  Wife, Peace With God, World

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• I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement

  John Byrne

  Dream, Reality, Waking

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• Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.

  Paul Murray

  Fall, Opportunity, Arrows

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• Every boy, in his journey to become a man, takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. Because the wound is rarely discussed and even more rarely healed, every man carries a wound. And the wound is nearly always given by his father.

  John Eldredge

  Father, Heart, Journey

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.62, Harper Collins

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• If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

  John Eldredge

  Growing Up, Warrior, Men

  John Eldredge (2002). “Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.

  John Eldredge

  Fun, Winter, Simple

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

  Jim Carroll

  Pain, Joy, Catholic

  Song: Catholic Boy

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• Don't climb on that, don't break anything, don't be so aggressive, don't be so noisy, don't be so messy, don't make such crazy risks. But God's design - which He placed in boys as the picture of Himself - is a resounding yes. Be fierce, be wild, be passionate.

  John Eldredge

  Crazy, Design, Risk

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• I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.

  Danny McBride

  Hair, Rocks, Wife

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

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• It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

  Reggie Jackson

  New York, Scratches, Fickle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  Adam Ant

  Men, Littles, Little Boys

  "Adam Ant: 'To be a pop star you need sex, subversion, style and humour'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2012.

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