Boy Quotes

You look at De La Hoya, and you think that he is an actor or a singer. I'd like to rearrange a couple of things on his face so the pretty boy becomes just another boxer.

Bernard Hopkins
- Pretty
- Couple
- Boy
To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.

Amor Towles
- Boy
- Lyrics

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
For me, the passing of time has provided me with subjects I never had before. Subjects I can now look at from a historical perspective. Like the anti-communist era in America. I lived through that. I was a boy; I didn't find a way to write about it until many years later. The same with the Vietnam War.

Philip Roth
- Time
- America
- War
Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad. I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.

Joanne Rowling
- School
- Bad
- Math
I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

Derek Walcott
- Boy
- Curiosity
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

Flannery O'Connor
- Life
- Live
- Why
It's not a personal attack on Big Boy. It's just offensive. He's pointing at his private parts. People are calling me saying their kids are asking about it. Parents are upset about it. I'm upset about it.

Eddie Charles Jones
- People
- Kids
- Parents