Boy Quotes

• There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Up
  • Long
  • Together

• I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because I talked with more of a country accent.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Career
  • Boy

• A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Wisdom
  • Animal
  • Boys

• When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

  

  Bernard Lagat
  • Boy

• Michael Jackson did real damage in my overall life. I was a 12-year-old boy who was hurt by his family and ignored by people at school. Michael would sit and talk to me for hours and he would listen. Then he would get bored. The biggest thing that Michael's done to children is befriending the ones that are in need and then abandoning them

  

  Corey Feldman
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Did he dare trust this insane boy?

  

  Brom
  • Trust
  • Boy

• I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

  

  John Gokongwei
  • Time
  • Family
  • Money

• These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.

  

  George Lois
  • Boy
  • Celebrity

• I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Me
  • Wish

• There is Truth, the truth of the Truth and there is Peace. The Truth is 'the boy stole an apple', the truth of the Truth is 'the boy was hungry' and Peace is 'nobody stole anything, now, give the boy an apple!'

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Truth
  • Peace
  • Boys

• People tend to throw up hands at Michael Jackson's multifarious bizarreness. But is it really so strange? The boy was forced to work by a cruel and physically abusive father starting at the age of 7.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm stopped by mothers who say, 'Mr. Wilder, what advice would you give to my young boy? He's really talented.'

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Boy
  • Advice

• He explained to me that he wanted a simple boy-meets-girl story with lyrics. This I felt was quite beyond my capabilities. I did not know any boys who met girls.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Girl
  • Simple
  • Lyrics

• What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

  

  Princess Diana
  • Boy

• I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

  

  Anthony Hamilton
  • Church
  • Heaven
  • Grandmother

• I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it's like, 'Look how cool they are,' but it's just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating - but then I realized he was the one cheating.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Bad
  • Cool
  • Sexy

• I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

  

  Lee Ryan Blue
  • Up
  • Band
  • Famous

• There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Life
  • Black
  • Powerful

• Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Sin
  • Boys
  • Exquisite

• I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • Boy
  • Jokes
  • Goofs

• The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

  

  Eric Berne
  • Boy

• When a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words

  

  Sage Francis
  • World
  • Done
  • Words

• Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?

  

  Baden Powell
  • Wisdom
  • Road
  • Boys

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