Boy Quotes

• For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Words
  • Daily
  • Tiger

• Never let a boy know you're crazy about him. He'll lose interest, and then you'll be a loser.

  

  Hailey Abbott
  • Crazy
  • Boys
  • Loser

• 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

• I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Family
  • May
  • Home

• Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • School
  • Lawyer
  • Girlfriend

• Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

  

  Denis Kearney
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

  

  Elliott Carter
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Daily

• 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

• In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'

  

  Frank Crowninshield
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

  

  Art Donovan
  • People
  • Up
  • Proud

• I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

  

  Loretta Young
  • Life
  • Family
  • Home

• The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Individual

• Anwar is as bent as a three-euro note: just bright enough to think he’s smarter than everyone around him, just stupid enough not to realize that they’ve got his number. He’s a walking poster-boy for the Dunning-Kruger Effect: If he says he’s going straight, it probably means one of his idiot friends told him shoplifting is legal.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Friends
  • Stupid
  • Walking

• I'm not a rude boy; I'm my own thing.

  

  Ashley Thomas
  • Boy
  • Rude

• 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

• I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Boy

• He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• There are no guarantees. Not with love or with life. But we can't go through life never taking a risk... Put our hearts out there. Take a chance with a boy. We might end up hurt, we might not.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Life
  • Up
  • Risk

• I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Boy
  • Curiosity

• My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Air
  • Boy

• Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

  

  William Gibson
  • Girl
  • Clicks
  • Legos

• We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Boy

• I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Love
  • Father
  • Fear

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