3,140 Quotes About Boys

  • Author Vikas Swarup
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    I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

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  • Author Vikram Seth
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    There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

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  • Author Wally Stephens
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    We have some strong competitors, even though we are short on numbers. We'll have some strong relays and some strong individuals. We have some younger boys who should develop well throughout the season.

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  • Author Wallace Stevens
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    Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

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  • Author Walter Scott
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    The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

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  • Author Walter Scott
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    Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

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  • Author Wendell Say
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    They looked at the videotape because of Kali, but I guess they liked the other boys. Same thing happened with Southern Utah. They liked the same kids, too, watching the tape.

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  • Author Wilbur Smith
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    Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.

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