Little Boys Quotes - Page 11

• A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

  Tom Seaver

  Baseball, Athlete, Boys

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• You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

  Roy Campanella

  Baseball, Boys, Men

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

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• When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Boys, Player

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• Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

  Bobby Jones

  Silly, Golf, Boys

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• I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

  Rob Lee

  Sports, Heart, Boys

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• That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not serve fried chicken next year. Got it? [...] Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Congratulations, Golf, Winning

  "Golfer says comments about Woods 'misconstrued'". www.cnn.com. April 21, 1997.

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• My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Children

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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• When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Kindness, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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• That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

  Dakota Fanning

  Kissing, Boys, Years

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• We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.

  Linda McCartney

  Moving, Weekend, Boys

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• Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.

  Alannah Myles

  Boys, Southern, Black

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• If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

  Aaron Neville

  Baby, Boys, Play

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• Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

  David Caruso

  Taken, Boys, Waste

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• I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Girl, Boys, Littles

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• My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

  Steve Kazee

  Mother, Boys, Littles

  "Steve Kazee Wins Tony Award For ‘Once,’ Gives Emotional Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 06, 2012.

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• A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Mother, Morning

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• I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have.

  Devendra Banhart

  Kids, Boys, Littles

  "Song: 'Little Boys' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want.'

  Robert Ley

  Father, Boys, Locks

  "Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader" by Ronald Smelser, (p. 24), 1988.

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• Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United.

  Robin van Persie

  Football, Boys, Decision

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• The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play with. A couple of weeks later we found it on the porch with its neck wrung.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Couple, Children, Boys

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• When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.

  Mel Brooks

  Kids, Boys, Adults

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• When I was a kid, Blade Runner was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

  Tahmoh Penikett

  Dad, Kids, Boys

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• Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Kids, Boys

  Erma Bombeck (1997). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.5, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

  Stephen Crane

  Book, Boys, Devil

  Stephen Crane (2005). “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions

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• Restaurants are like having children: its fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Fun, Children, Boys

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