Boys Quotes

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  My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

  Harmon Killebrew

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

  Jim Henson

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  Inspirational, Children, Teenage

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• Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

  Plato

  Leadership, Children, Humorous

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• A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Son, Stories

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Christmas Stories”, p.441, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Girls fall in love with what they hear. Boys fall in love with what they see. That’s why girls wear make-up and boys lie.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Girl, Falling In Love, Lying

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• One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Practice, Experience, Needs

  Charles Dudley Warner (2005). “Being A Boy”, p.5, 1st World Publishing

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• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  Robert Frost

  Mothers Day, Mom, Women

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• When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

  Joseph Heller

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

  Joseph Heller (1974). “Something Happened”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Baby Boy, Son

  1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.25.

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• How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

  Randall Terry

  Marriage, Men, Long

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• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Sports, Religious

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36

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• There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, War, Looks

  1880 Speech at Columbus, Ohio,11 Aug. Quoted in Lloyd Lewis Sherman Fighting Prophet (1932).

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• I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

  Leif Garrett

  Beach, Remakes, Beach Boys

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• The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

  Aaron Klug

  Philosophy, Latin, School

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• I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

  Sally Rand

  Born, Raised, County

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• The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Men, Challenges

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.

  George Crabbe

  Girl, Gun, Secret

  'Tales of the Hall' (1819) 'The Maid's Story' l. 84

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• Just making sure the boys are okay is my priority in life, and that takes up all of my time right now.

  Darren Clarke

  Priorities In Life, Okay, My Time

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• For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

  Wernher von Braun

  Mother, Technology, Long

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• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Accomplishment, Mastery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.406, Рипол Классик

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• Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

  Charles Lamb

  People, Way, Mates

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.58

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