Little Boys Quotes - Page 13

• Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

  Elliott Carter

  Aunt, Boys, Records

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• You are so high in the tree.If you jumpyou will live a full lifewhile falling.You will get marriedto a hummingbirdand raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancerin mid-air. I will not lie. It will be painful. You are a brave little boyor girl.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Beautiful, Girl, Lying

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• No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Girl, Boys, Differences

  "Mario Van Peebles On A 'Post-Racial' America". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 29, 2010.

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• From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

  Donald Kagan

  Reading, Boys, Choices

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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• And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

  Ty Burrell

  Sports, Team, Boys

  "Show What He's Really About Solo Talk With A Family Man". Interview with Angel Cohn, www.brilliantbutcancelled.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Boys, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

  James Frey

  Fighting, Boys, Idols

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• In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Country, War, School

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.100, Lantern Books

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• The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

  John Travolta

  Growing Up, Boys, Erotic

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My little boy loves mambo, and my daughter, besides Justin Bieber, likes bachata - in our house, we're always singing.

  Thalia

  Daughter, Boys, House

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• Formerly when the Govardhanagiri (mountain) was raised aloft by a little boy, the gopis and gopalas realised that Krishna was the Lord. Now, it is not one Govardhanagiri, a whole range will be lifted, you will see!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Boys, Mountain, Littles

  "Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 3: 1963". Discourses by Sri Sathya Sai Baba, www.sssbpt.info.

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• If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, Boys, Littles

  "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool" by Kate Harding, feministing.com. June 03, 2007.

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• The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Children, War, Eye

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.43, Penguin

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• My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

  William Levy

  Mother, Dad, Kids

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• I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Boys, Watches, Records

  "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.

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• A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

  David Seabury

  Perseverance, Boys, Littles

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• I experimented with drugs and I experimented with everything that little boys do - vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, breaking and entering schools and destroying a room. But I finally got to a point where I looked around and said, "This is not getting me anywhere. I'm stagnating with these guys." They were getting drunk and high every weekend. I got out.

  Johnny Depp

  School, Weekend, Boys

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• Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.

  Randall Jarrell

  Country, Confused, Passion

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "The Development of Yeats's Sense of Reality" (p. 89), 1980.

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• Why did the little girls grow crippled While the little boys grow strong The boys allowed to come of age The girls just came along The girls were told sing harmonies The boys could all sing songs That's why little girls grew crippled While little boys grew strong.

  Harry Chapin

  Girl, Song, Strong

  Song: Why Do Little Girls, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. "What you doin' young man?" "I'm paintin' flowers" he said She said... "It's not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There's a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You've got to show concern for everyone else For you're not the only one.

  Harry Chapin

  Teacher, Art, Flower

  Song: Flowers Are Red, 2007

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• I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

  Harland Williams

  Character, Boys, Voice

  "Harland Williams knew he was destined for greatness". Interview with Christian Williams, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me.

  Paul Walker

  Dog, Boys, Shepherds

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• I think it's interesting that there's always a dark cloud hanging over my character, in every movie. Even in Fat Man and Little Boy, where it's a real dark cloud. In Mask, it's more the judgment of others, but it's still a threat.

  Laura Dern

  Real, Character, Dark

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