Boys Quotes - Page 5

• American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

  Evan Thomas

  War, Dying, Three

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• Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, May, Moral

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.76, Routledge

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• The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Light, Spirit

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• Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

  Jane Birkin

  Hair, Ignorant, Stories

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• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  Carlo Collodi

  Mean, Poverty, Mischievous

  Carlo Collodi, Collodi Nipote (2012). “The Pinocchio Megapack: 4 Classic Puppet Tales”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC

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• When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Dark, Night, House

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

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• Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

  Cal Hubbard

  Umpires, Missing, Ems

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• The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

  Thomas Dolby

  Teenage, Games, Bigger

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• I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

  Yul Brynner

  Nice, Cutting, Cleaning

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• To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

  Michael Beschloss

  Fathers Day, People, History

  "Authors speak out on the Kennedy mystique". www.cnn.com. July 19, 1999.

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• Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Bad Boy, Sock

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

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• Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Hard Times, Animal

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

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• No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

  Sarah Kane

  Sassy, Cry, Make You Cry

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Inspirational, Play, Shining

  Stanley Kubrick, Gene D. Phillips (2001). “Stanley Kubrick: Interviews”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Business, Anarchy

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• When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

  Roald Dahl

  Morning, School, Together

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  When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Believe

  Quoted in Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941)

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• For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

  Eliza Dushku

  Football, Clothes, Tag

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• All I need to do to stay healthy is look at my three boys.

  Tracey Gold

  Healthy, Three, Needs

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• There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.

  Mary Antin

  Girl, Children, School

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• Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.

  Dave Bristol

  Baseball, Fun, Winning

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• I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

  Dennis Wilson

  Beach, Stage, Wheelchairs

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• The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

  Black Elk

  Girl, Warrior, Men

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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