Boy Quotes

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

Isaac Newton
- Boy
- Playing
- Seashore
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Night
- Team
- Football

That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido's words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that's the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.

A. R. Rahman
- Good
- Different
- Together
I played golf for 25 years before I made a hole-in-one of any kind. I was on the tour for years before it finally happened. Eventually I made 23, but boy, that first one was a long time coming. It was the price I paid for not shooting at every flag.

Billy Casper
- Time
- Long
- Golf
I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.

Anohni
- School
- High
- Boy
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Augustus Hare
- Happy
- Mother
- Tired
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

J. D. Salinger
- People
- Up
- Hope
When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

Jack Roy
- Play
- Boy
- Kid