Boys Quotes - Page 6

• Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

  George Will

  Gun, Ducks, Giving

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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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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  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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• 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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• Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Teenage, Psych

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• Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

  Horace Walpole

  School, Power, Age

  Letter to Montagu, 6 May 1736, in 'Letters'

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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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• A boy's will is the wind's will.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thank You, Children, Son

  'My Lost Youth' (1858)

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• Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

  Toni Morrison

  Fear, Black, Target

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• Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Love, Men, Littles

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

  Eric Berne

  Nature, Equality, Birds Wings

  ERIC BERNE, M.D. (1964). “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

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• The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Morning, Believe, Yesterday

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• But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

  John Thorn

  Dream, Stars, Men

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• Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

  Edward Abbey

  Girl, Horse, Men

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• When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.

  Richard Avedon

  Dog, Taken, Home

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• I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.

  Thom Yorke

  Revenge, School, Kids

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• Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

  Eric Sevareid

  Men, Order, Want

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• When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

  George Burns

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  George Burns (1986). “Dear George: advice & answers from America's leading expert on everything from A to B”, G K Hall & Co

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• Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Girly, Hate, Games

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

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• Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

  James Thurber

  Thank You, Children, Baby Boy

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• But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

  James M. Barrie

  Dust, Years, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.151, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

  Corey Haim

  Roles, My Favorite, Lost

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• Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Smart, Female, Ass

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• When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Football, School

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