Little Boys Quotes - Page 3

• He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know?

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Silly, Boys

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• I'm a stranger," pointed out Bod. "You're not," she said, definitely. "You're a little boy." And then she said, "And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger.

  Neil Gaiman

  Boys, Littles, Stranger

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.24, A&C Black

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• My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

  James A. Baldwin

  Boys, African American, Littles

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.

  David Rudisha

  Running, Boys, Littles

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• Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.

  Krista Allen

  Boys, Men, Needs

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• Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface.

  Roy Campanella

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'

  Roberto Benigni

  Boys, Simple, Games

  "Roberto Benigni defends 'Life' as 'real love story'". www.cnn.com. November 09, 1998.

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• For a long time our son ws a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's a teenager with autism - and a teenager who notices girls - we're faced with something else altogether.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Girl, Teenager, Son

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• I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

  Jim Lehrer

  Kids, Eye, Boys

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• I was rather a fat little boy.

  Cyril Cusack

  Boys, Littles, Fats

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• The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

  Michael Chabon

  Life, Mother, Boys

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• To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys.

  Roy Campanella

  Running, Home, Kissing

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• I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.

  Cheryl Cole

  Baby, Kids, Boys

  "The Voice". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 6, 2014.

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• I definitely read the comic books and got as familiar with the comic books as possible. I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.

  Chris Zylka

  Book, Men, Boys

  "Chris Zylka Wanted A Deeper Flash Thompson For 'Amazing Spider-Man'". Interview with Ryan J. Downey, www.mtv.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Eye, Boys

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• ... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her e-mails and would still snuggle up to her to be petted when they were in the mood, but they were men, and though they would always be at the center of her life, she was no longer at the center of theirs.

  Cathleen Schine

  Mother Son, Mother And Son, Men

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• It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Boys, Adults

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.262, Penguin

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• The Little Mute Boy The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. I do not want it for speaking with; I will make a ring of it so that he may wear my silence on his little finger In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. (The captive voice, far away, put on a cricket's clothes.) Translated by William S. Merwin

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Kings, Boys, Voice

  Federico Garcia Lorca, “The Little Mute Boy”

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• The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Kids, Boys, Thinking

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• I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

  Nicolas Cage

  Boys, Thinking, Magic

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• I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.

  Orson Scott Card

  Wall, Crazy, Boys

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.81, Macmillan

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

  Dustin Diamond

  Boys, Littles, Mario

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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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• 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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