Good Boy Quotes - Page 2

• I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

  John Cusack

  Boys, Thinking, Moral

  "Being John Cusack", www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.

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• I believe God was in Christ, not will be, perhaps, maybe if we're good boys and girls, it's over, it's done, we are one people, race is a violation, nations are a violation.

  Will Davis Campbell

  Girl, Believe, Boys

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• Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

  Michael Stipe

  Parent, Compromise, Good Parent

  Source: thequietus.com

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• How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

  Fiona Apple

  Girl, Boys, Two

  "Read a Letter Fiona Apple Wrote to a Young Gay Fan in 2000" by Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. March 30,2012.

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• Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

  Norman Mailer

  Boys, Chickens, Ifs

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• Yes, he’s a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he’s on the honor roll. Captain of the football team. All-around psycho serial killer who hides bodies in the fridge whenever his parents go out of town. (Nick) I also eat babies for breakfast and torture small animals for fun. My therapist says I’m making real progress though. (Caleb)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Football, Baby, Fun

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• Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them." "Yes, they are good boys," I once heard a kind father say. "I talk to them very much, but do not like to beat my, children--the world will beat them." It was a beautiful thought not elegantly expressed.

  Elihu Burritt

  Beautiful, Children, Father

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• Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?
  Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?
  Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.
  Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.
  Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.
  Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.
  Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.
  Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.
  Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.
  Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?

  Antwone Fisher

  Hurt, Pain, Sleep

  "Antwone Fisher". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.'

  Steven Wright

  Boys, Ice Cream, Cake

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• I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.

  Frank McCourt

  Prayer, Children, School

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother's going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it. Nowadays, he lives in a world we don't understand too well, the actor's world. We don't see too much of him. But he's a good boy, my Jim. A good boy, and I'm very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He's not easy to understand. But he's all man, and he'll make his mark. Mind you, my boy will make his mark.

  James Dean

  Mother, Boys, Men

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• We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Weather, Religion

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!" "Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect..." "Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!" "I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny. "No! My mum would take herself!" "What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said. "The fire!

  Terry Pratchett

  Silly, Boys, Fire

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• Nick glowered at Ash. "Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew." Ash laughed evilly. "Oh, absolutely, son. In fact, here come your new playmates now.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dad, Home, Son

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.300, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Nice, Character

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• My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

  Haskell Wexler

  Mother, Responsibility, Boys

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents herself in a sexual way, who is the main bad person. And then you start reading more fiction, whether crime fiction or straight fiction, it's just bad girls trying to make good boys do bad things, going all the way back to Adam and Eve. The woman that thou gavest me made me do it, Adam says to God.

  Sara Paretsky

  Girl, Reading, Eye

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Every parent worries for their child, but I do worry that he's all right, and happy and stable, and that I've done the best that I can. He's a good boy - so far so good. But if you're a parent, it doesn't matter if your child is five or 50 - you still worry.

  Heather Small

  Children, Boys, Worry

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• In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.

  Nicolas Cage

  Couple, Book, Boys

  "Comic-Con: Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, and Directors Mark Neveldine/ Brian Taylor Interview GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Normal people, want to be accepted. Screwed up people, want to be accepted. It's one of the few things we have in common. My whole life, all I ever wanted was my dad to pat me on the top of the head and go, Who's a good boy ? Who's a good boy? But, instead, all he ever did was wipe peanut butter on the end of my nose and laugh while I tried to lick it off.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Acceptance, Boys

  "Titus / Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Home, School, Boys

  "The New Frontier’s Man". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2007.

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• Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Heart, Boys

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• We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl".

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Girl, Animal, Boys

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• When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Winning, Boys, Directors

  Source: deadline.com

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• Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

  John Eldredge

  Nice, Boys, Men

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