Little Boys Quotes - Page 11

• I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Girl, Boys, Littles

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• Her elf is going to do just that,” he said, the red glow of the ever-after sun turning his hair auburn, almost as red as mine. “I did not work this hard at getting her to accept who she is to let you take your spoiled brat of a little-boy temper tantrum out on her. She stays on my side of the lines.

  Kim Harrison

  Boys, Hair, Auburn

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• If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Boys, People

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?

  Neil Gaiman

  Boys, Doe, Littles

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

  Dakota Fanning

  Kissing, Boys, Years

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• My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Children

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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• That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not serve fried chicken next year. Got it? [...] Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Congratulations, Golf, Winning

  "Golfer says comments about Woods 'misconstrued'". www.cnn.com. April 21, 1997.

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• I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

  Rob Lee

  Sports, Heart, Boys

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• Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

  Bobby Jones

  Silly, Golf, Boys

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• We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.

  Linda McCartney

  Moving, Weekend, Boys

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• When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Boys, Player

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• You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

  Roy Campanella

  Baseball, Boys, Men

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

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• A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

  Tom Seaver

  Baseball, Athlete, Boys

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• My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

  Steve Kazee

  Mother, Boys, Littles

  "Steve Kazee Wins Tony Award For ‘Once,’ Gives Emotional Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 06, 2012.

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• Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Grieving, Boys

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.138, Egmont UK

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• Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Hurt, Dark, Boys

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• I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have.

  Devendra Banhart

  Kids, Boys, Littles

  "Song: 'Little Boys' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want.'

  Robert Ley

  Father, Boys, Locks

  "Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader" by Ronald Smelser, (p. 24), 1988.

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• Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United.

  Robin van Persie

  Football, Boys, Decision

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• The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play with. A couple of weeks later we found it on the porch with its neck wrung.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Couple, Children, Boys

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• When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.

  Mel Brooks

  Kids, Boys, Adults

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Book, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 14, 2012

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• When I was a kid, Blade Runner was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

  Tahmoh Penikett

  Dad, Kids, Boys

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• Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Kids, Boys

  Erma Bombeck (1997). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.5, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

  Stephen Crane

  Book, Boys, Devil

  Stephen Crane (2005). “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions

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