Little Boys Quotes - Page 2

• The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

  Eric Berne

  Nature, Boys, Equality

  ERIC BERNE, M.D. (1964). “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

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• Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Growing Up, Boys, Men

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• When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

  William Levy

  Baseball, Dream, Boys

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• Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

  James Thurber

  Art, Boys, Men

  Quoted in Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks (eds) Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981).

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• If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

  Paul Walker

  Boys, Men, Littles

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• As children, women are encouraged to be "little ladies." Little ladies don't scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are chastised more severely for throwing tantrums or showing temper: "high spirits" are expected and therefore tolerated in little boys; docility and resignation are the corresponding traits expected of little girls. Now, we tend to excuse a show of temper by a man where we would not excuse an identical tirade from a woman: women are allowed to fuss and complain, but only a man can bellow in rage.

  Robin Lakoff

  Girl, Children, Women

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• I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Boys, Joy

  "Of Beards and Books: An Interview with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Nikki Steele, bookriot.com. November 17, 2015.

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• I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

  Cokie Roberts

  Children, Boys, Als

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• And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
  Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

  Harry Chapin

  Song, Cat, Boys

  Song: Cat's in the Cradle, 1974

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• A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Boys, Bed

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.352, Penguin

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• Little Boy's performance is authentic, natural, moving & inspiring.

  Eva Longoria

  Moving, Boys, Littles

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• When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Boys, Men

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• My mother told me I said to her, at age three, 'I'm going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.' 'You've never seen quite so fierce a little boy as you were,' she told me. She tried to explain that I couldn't get my father in a tractor. Apparently I looked at her and narrowed my eyes and said, 'In that case, I'm going in a double-decker bus,' and stomped off. Which is kind of funny, but it's very sad, as well.

  Roger Waters

  Mother, Father, Eye

  "Back To The Wall: Rolling Stone's 2010 Profile of Pink Floyd's Roger Waters". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. October 06, 2011.

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• I still feel like a little boy on the set, watching the movie magic being made.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Boys, Magic, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed on little boys. Consensus on the point seems absolute. But ask your interlocutor to think about the validity of this surgical procedure, which consists of removing a healthy part of a nonconsenting child’s body on nonmedical grounds – the legal definition of… mutilation.

  Michel Onfray

  Girl, Children, Boys

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• I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

  Alan Cumming

  Boys, Should Have, Littles

  "Acting out" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2007.

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• Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

  Neil Armstrong

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

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• I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.

  Dustin Diamond

  Boys, Littles, Mario

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• I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

  Paul Johnson

  Boys, Editors, Littles

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• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  Adam Ant

  Boys, Men, Littles

  "Adam Ant: 'To be a pop star you need sex, subversion, style and humour'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2012.

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• Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets, canteens, binoculars, these kinds of things - that leant a kind of authenticity to the games we were playing. But, of course, my father never gave me anything. So I began to question him. You know, Why don't you have anything from the war? And I think he was...embarrassed to tell me he hadn't fought, because, you know, little boys want to turn their fathers into heroes, and he didn't want to be diminished in my eyes.

  Paul Auster

  Father, War, Hero

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing.

  Charles Mingus

  Boys, Swings, Hands

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• I let them [Kanye and Pharrell] be them; they let me be me. I'm just a little boy that does poetry whose friends got famous, and I like it that way. I like to be found. I don't want to be overexposed. I love when people discover me and discover my music.

  Malik Yusef

  Boys, People, Doe

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• These powerbrokers, which bomb innocent countries and slaughter people, and, you know, pump the food chain full of garbage and just everything else they do, it's probably something fun for them. They really get off on being bad little boys.

  Alex Jones

  Country, Fun, Power

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• As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

  Paul Auster

  Boys, Littles, Strange

  Paul Auster (2010). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews”, p.501, Macmillan

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