Boy Quotes

I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay. (Isaac Newton)
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. View quote
Robert Frost
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. View quote
Eric Berne
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it. View quote
Clarence Darrow
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. View quote
Robert Benchley
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. View quote
Mickey Mantle
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics. View quote
Newt Gingrich
Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache. (P. G. Wodehouse)
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. View quote
Woody Allen
I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there. View quote
Mickey Spillane
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. View quote
Max Beerbohm
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. View quote
Arthur Miller
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. View quote
Milan Kundera
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? View quote
Laurence J. Peter
As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy... (Laurie Halse Anderson)
I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper air-planes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart. View quote
Niall Horan
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it. View quote
Groucho Marx
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. View quote
Bobby Sands
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