Boy Quotes

• It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

  

  David Mackay
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Moon

• Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Success
  • Wisdom
  • Training

• A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Children
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Wisdom
  • Shadow
  • Boys

• Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

  

  James Nasmyth
  • War
  • Interesting
  • Boy

• I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

  

  Marv Albert
  • Boy
  • Teenager

• The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Boy

• Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Good
  • Different
  • Girl

• I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Remember

• You want to play? Come find me angel boy.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Boy
  • Angel

• My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

  

  Kris Allen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Boy

• I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

  

  David Heyman
  • Time
  • Unique
  • Legend

• I think it was born out of that grade school fantasy that a lot of nerds like me had, which was 'I could probably get the cute red-headed girl that sits across from me, if only every other boy in the entire school dies.'

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • School
  • Girl
  • Red

• The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Family
  • Home
  • Book

• When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

  

  Dario Fo
  • Art
  • Boy
  • Ironic

• If you are a boy, they will brainwash you, strap bombs to your body and blow you up. If you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you.

  

  David Cameron
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Blow

• You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man I've become.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Men
  • Power
  • True

• Maybe nobody loved you when you were young Maybe, boy, when you cry nobody ever comes Will you try it once? Give up the machine gun

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Up
  • Boy
  • Gun

• It has been a pleasure to play with all these artists. Pretenders was a real highlight, but also Damon, aka Badly Drawn Boy, Sinead... Ian Brown... all of these people I learn from and love to work with.

  

  Andy Rourke The Smiths
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Boy

• Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

  

  David Whyte
  • May
  • Future
  • Attention

• I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this to a group of kids and a boy said, "Ah, no, that's disgusting." And I said, "Well, I hadn't used the sick bag."

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Mirror

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