My Boys Quotes - Page 3

• This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delightful than to be told, 'You don't have to learn, my boy. There's nothing in it. Modern art? There's nothing in it.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Boys, Age

  Televised BBC interview, 1968.

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• Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Boys, Hands, Years

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• Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

  Harpo Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Harpo Speaks!".

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• I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind.' He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. 'We are from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout.

  John Gardner

  Memories, Boys, Past

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.62, Vintage

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• So I’ve seen my boys do that a hundred times with the neighboring pixy girls. Give her their favorite seed and be too flustered to tell her what it was.

  Kim Harrison

  Girl, Boys, Giving

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• There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Boys, Ideas

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• Now, that’s my boy you’re talking about, and I don’t want to get crossed up with you, Sasha. But you keep that tone and attitude about him, and we will.” – Sundown “Sorry. I forget you and Ash are weird enough to actually like him. No accounting for taste.” – Sasha

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Attitude, Boys

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• It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Spring, School

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.340, GENERAL PRESS

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• My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.

  William Shatner

  Boys, Tv Shows, Use

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• In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

  Patrick Ness

  Boys, Numbness, World

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• Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Boys, Details, Never Trust

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

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• You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

  T. H. White

  Running, Boys, Risk

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.65, Penguin

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• Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we are truly tested. When all that we have within is exposed, and we may no longer blame our inadequacies for our failure, but must instead depend upon our strengths to succeed ... that is when the measure of a man is taken, my boy.

  James A. Owen

  Taken, Men, Boys

  James A. Owen (2010). “Here, There Be Dragons”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)

  John Steinbeck

  Communication, Boys, Simple

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• Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently, What I'm going to say will sound pretty wild. But you're not the father of this strange looking child. You see, there still is some question about the child's gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender.

  Tim Burton

  Children, Father, Boys

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• At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.

  Dwyane Wade

  Mother, Father, Son

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• Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

  Imran Khan

  Winning, Boys, Proud

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• I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

  Kevin James

  Sports, Baby, Easter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Boys, Offering, Protection

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• I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

  Princess Diana

  Dream, Boys, People

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• Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!

  Robin Sloan

  Reading, Boys, Eyebrows

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

  William Wordsworth

  Boys, Teach, Sweetest

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.146

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• Where are you taking us?" Nico said. "You should be honored, my boy. You will have the opportunity to join a great army! Just like that silly game you play with cards and dolls." "They're not dolls! They're figurines! And you can take your great army and—

  Rick Riordan

  Silly, Army, Boys

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• Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

  Ma Barker

  Lying, Kids, Boys

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• My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Boys, Vegetables, Poor

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