Boys Quotes - Page 11

• Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

  Julian Barnes

  Fall, Yield, Russia

  "Talking It Over". Book by Julian Barnes, books.google.ru. February 23, 2010.

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• I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.

  Gene Autry

  Strong, Uncles, Ambition

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• The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sweet, Home, Son

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1945, Library of America

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• There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

  Vikram Seth

  Posters, Burden, Feels

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  Vikas Swarup

  Bad Boy, Delhi, Bengali

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• I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

  Jim Lovell

  Airplane, Years, Dinosaurs

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• I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.

  Jon Scieszka

  Girl, Reading, School

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• For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

  Jon Scieszka

  Girl, Educational, Different

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• I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

  Brian Selznick

  Struggle, Moving, Writing

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• I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.

  Kim Alexis

  Jesus, New York, Cities

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• A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Feet, Sky

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.119, Penguin

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• When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Father, Moving

  Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.102, Penguin

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• In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Party, Opposites

  1989 Self-Consciousness, VI. 'On Being A Self Forever'.

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• Little boys have amazing minds.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Mind, Littles, Little Boys

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

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• Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Song, White, My Favorite

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• I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Writing, Long, Stories

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• Tears came to my eyes when I read of a mere boy in one of our eastern cities who noticed a vagrant asleep on a sidewalk and who then went to his own room, retrieved his own pillow, and placed it beneath the head of that one whom he knew not. Perhaps there came from the precious past the welcome words: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matt. 25:40).

  Thomas S. Monson

  Eye, Past, Cities

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• The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

  Walter Scott

  Play

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Kenilworth”, p.102

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• Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

  James Dobson

  Girl, Individual, Assertive

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• Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Girl, Baseball, Growing Up

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• Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

  Big Sean

  Hip Hop, Eras, Hips

  "Big Sean Talks Def Jam Debut, Detroit Roots, and Working With Kanye & Pharrell". Interview with Modele "Modi" Oyewole, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.

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• (As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp.

  Junior Wells

  Eye, Listening, Records

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• Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?

  Terry Wogan

  Children, School, Lunch

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• There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.

  Russell Wilson

  Nsync, Ipods, Come Up

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• One nip from a dragon and you're down? Get up, you craven school (boy/girl)!

  Gangrel

  Girl, School, Dragons

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