Boys Quotes - Page 5

• I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

  Yul Brynner

  Nice, Cutting, Cleaning

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• The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Light, Spirit

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• Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

  Jane Birkin

  Hair, Ignorant, Stories

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• Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

  Cal Hubbard

  Umpires, Missing, Ems

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• Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, May, Moral

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.76, Routledge

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• I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Two, Differences

  Oliver Twist ch. 14 (1838)

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• When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Dark, Night, House

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

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• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  Carlo Collodi

  Mean, Poverty, Mischievous

  Carlo Collodi, Collodi Nipote (2012). “The Pinocchio Megapack: 4 Classic Puppet Tales”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC

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• American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

  Evan Thomas

  War, Dying, Three

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• A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Suggestions, Boy Scout

  "Aids to Scoutmastership: A Handbook for Scoutmasters on the Theory of Scout Training".

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• The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Games, Play

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

  Roald Dahl

  Morning, School, Together

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  When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Believe

  Quoted in Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941)

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• The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

  Black Elk

  Girl, Warrior, Men

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Horse, Order, Greek

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.21, UPNE

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• When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Girl, Men, Growth

  'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'Looking Forward'

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• Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Teenage, Psych

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• Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

  Horace Walpole

  School, Power, Age

  Letter to Montagu, 6 May 1736, in 'Letters'

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• Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

  Donald E. Westlake

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Fictional character: Roy Dillon". "The Grifters", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Hard Times, Animal

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

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• No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

  Sarah Kane

  Sassy, Cry, Make You Cry

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Inspirational, Play, Shining

  Stanley Kubrick, Gene D. Phillips (2001). “Stanley Kubrick: Interviews”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Business, Anarchy

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• For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

  Eliza Dushku

  Football, Clothes, Tag

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