3,140 Quotes About Boys

  • Author Peter Shaffer
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    He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

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  • Author Peter Stormare
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    I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

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  • Author Rebecca Stead
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    Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

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  • Author Rebecca Stead
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    If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.

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  • Author Rob Schimmoeller
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    It's nice to come back and get them. I told the boys that if you play defense, you've got a chance.

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  • Author Ringo Starr
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    I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

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  • Author Robert Falcon Scott
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    Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

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  • Author Robert Louis Stevenson
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    When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

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