Lad Quotes - Page 8

• I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

  John Henry Carver

  Memories, Father, Journey

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• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Fighting, Years

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• A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Horse, Teaching, Leaving

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• I'm a working class lad.

  Rob James-Collier

  Class, Working Class

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

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• For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

  Tony Iommi

  Black, Strange, Young

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• "I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove and drove and been beat off, may be t'other side the world. But the ship's a good ship, and the lad's a good lad; and it ain't easy, thank the Lord," the Captain made a little bow, "to break up hearts of oak, whether they're in brigs or buzzums."

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Heart, Weather

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Dombey and SonI”, p.340, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

  Christopher Moore

  Names, Towns, Hail

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• Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Mad, Female

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.363

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• A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

  Maria Mitchell

  Boys, Journey, Please Me

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• He's a nice young lad. I'll keep putting him on ... as long as he doesn't tell me any lies. He's back focused and it's great to see. Let's hope he keeps going on from that.

  Lee Freedman

  Nice, Lying, Long

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• As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

  Howard Thompson

  Cutting, Acting, Doe

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• Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we bring them to-day, the children of our Sunday-schools, of our churches, of the streets. Here they are; they wait Thy benediction. The prayer of Jacob for his sons shall be my prayer while I live, and when I die: "The angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads."

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Jesus, Prayer, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 571), 1895.

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• Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90
  minutes

  Bobby Robson

  Fit, Boxes, Minutes

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• You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
  Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
  Sneak home and pray you'll never know
  The hell where youth and laughter go.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Cheer, Laughter, Home

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Height

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• If it be sin to love a lovely lad
  Oh there sin I.

  Richard Barnfield

  Lovely, Sin, Ifs

  "The affectionate shepherd". Book by Richard Barnfield, 1594.

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• I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessarily warm to me. But now I have been through childbirth, post-natal depression and struggled with my weight, women seem to relate to me a lot more.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Thinking, Weight, Mags

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• Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.

  Kenny Dalglish

  Team, Training, Clubs

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• I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.

  Agyness Deyn

  Girl

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

  Les Dawson

  Salt, Dictionary

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.22, Michael O'Mara Books

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• If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

  Tommy Docherty

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all.

  James Michael

  Light, Space, Shadow

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• Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

  Graham Norton

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• Being a lad is what I'm about.

  Liam Gallagher

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• I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is one such lad, whose music in Banjaara has been liked a lot.

  Sukhwinder Singh

  Cost, Passionate, Composer

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