My Boys Quotes - Page 5

• Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

  Belle Boyd

  Children, Son, Boys

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• Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Boys

  1836-7 Sam Weller's father. Pickwick Papers, ch.33.

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• I absolutely insist that all my boys are in bed before breakfast

  Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie

  Boys, Bed, Breakfast

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• Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Father, Boys, Flames

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Boys, World, Causes

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.12, Penguin

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• I really wanted to raise my boys in a place where 'celebrity' wasn't important, and where I could be closer to where I grew up (upstate NY). I love it here - it reminds me of my childhood. It seems more open minded and inclusive, and I love the seasons.

  Lauren Holly

  Boys, Childhood, Important

  "Lauren Holly: Why I Raise My Kids In Canada". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. February 14, 2014.

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• My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you.

  Philip II of Macedon

  Ambition, Boys, Kingdoms

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• The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.

  Matt Cullen

  Fun, Reading, Kids

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

  Ezra Pound

  Giving Up, Boys, Men

  'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1920) 'Mr Nixon'

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• Michael!” Oliver’s voice came faint through the front door. “Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!” “Trap,” Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael’s arm as he walked by. “Don’t, man.” “What’s he going to do? Make faces at me?

  Rachel Caine

  Boys, Men, Doors

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.322, Penguin

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• Liam in Taken has been great to see. My boys love it. They love him. And there's just the gravitas to it. It's believable. You know the guy's endured. You know the guy's lived some life. Someone like Liam has lived a lot of life. Myself, I've lived a lot of life. There's loss. There's success. There's loss. There's doubts. And there's some heartbeat there.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Taken, Loss, Boys

  Source: collider.com

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• I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Horse, Love You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

  Sean Connery

  Boys, Land, Pilgrim

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• When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Writing, Boys

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• America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Hurt, Boys

  "Johnny Depp: U.S. is like a stupid puppy". edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2003.

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• My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.

  T. H. White

  Animal, Boys, Done With You

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.65, Penguin

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• It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.

  James A. Owen

  Boys, Blood, Ink

  James A. Owen (2010). “Here, There Be Dragons”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Boys, Years, Long

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Boys, Way, Tomorrow

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• Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.” "Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

  Melina Marchetta

  Boys, Would Be, Too Much

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

  Terrell Owens

  Boys, Smell, Looks

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• I had the blood and fire rule when my boys were young. You know, unless it's blood or fire, don't bother me.

  Nora Roberts

  Boys, Fire, Blood

  "Nora Roberts: The woman who rewrote the rules of romantic fiction" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2011.

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• Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.

  David Gemmell

  Boys, Love Is, Blood

  "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 2, 1990.

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• I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Mother, Wrestling

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

  John Towner Williams

  Memories, Boys, Age

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