Like A Boy Quotes

• And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

  Veronica Roth

  Boys, Doe, Kind

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• If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

  Gilbert Highet

  Girl, Giving Up, Teaching

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Song, Strong, Growing Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Girl, Teacher, Children

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• I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

  Sally Rand

  Boys, Born, Raised

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• Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up Over the horizon like a boy On a fishing expedition.

  John Ashbery

  Morning, Sex, Boys

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Girl, Boys, People

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• I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.

  Jon Scieszka

  Girl, Reading, School

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• One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys.

  Dennis Rainey

  Growing Up, Father, Moving

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• A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Gun, Boys

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic.

  Analeigh Tipton

  Boys, Makeup, Dresses

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• I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

  Mario Balotelli

  Dad, Boys, Would Be

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• I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Boys, House

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

  Asia Argento

  Father, Boys, Looks

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

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• You see, being bald and wearing that gray starship uniform, I would have looked like a boy. I wanted to look like a sexy female.

  Persis Khambatta

  Sexy, Boys, Female

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Men, Boys

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• If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

  Tom Conti

  Kids, Boys, Men

  "Tom Conti: 'I knew nothing at all about street dance ... '". Interview With Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

  Jimmy Carter

  Boys, Fishing, Rivers

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.74, University of Arkansas Press

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• Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

  Michael Gurian

  Tired, Boys, Men

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• I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

  Mae Whitman

  Baseball, Boys, Dresses

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

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• Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sweet, Taken, Boys

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.965, Bantam

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• Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle - oh, look, we broke down this wall, I'm going to look at you like a girl and you're going to look at me like a boy, and we're going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There.

  John Green

  Girl, Wall, Fun

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.114, Penguin

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• But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Aunt, Boys, Likes

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.84, Xist Publishing

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• Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fashion, Religious, Philosophical

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.

  Emma Watson

  Daughter, Brother, Dad

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