Boy Quotes - page 80

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti. (Henry Louis Gates)
So Bertrand Russell once said to me that the pupil in school should study whatever he liked. I asked whether this was not a crime against the pupil. ... Should he be allowed to grow up without knowing Shakespeare? ... Lord Russell replied that he would require a boy to read one play of Shakespeare; if he did not like it, he should not be compelled to read any more. View quote
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Now, I ain't alone, as you may think I am. There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver. It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man. A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open. View quote
Charles Dickens
There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver. View quote
Charles Dickens
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella. View quote
Charles Dickens
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed. View quote
Charles Dickens
I took a good deal o pains with his eddication, sir let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. Its the only way to make a boy sharp, sir. View quote
Charles Dickens
I don't think that we are going to get out of this completely unscathed, I think that this is going to be one of those things we look back on and say boy, that was bad. View quote
Anthony Fauci
Growing up, I was surrounded by Nazi imagery, like everybody in Germany, and for a boy obsessed with photography it left an indelible impression on me. View quote
Helmut Newton
The situation was uncomfortable for the people and for [Eutimio], so I ended the problem giving him a shot with a.32 pistol in the right side of the brain, with exit orifice in the right temporal [lobe]. He gasped for a little while and was dead. Upon proceeding to remove his belongings I couldn't get off the watch tied by a chain to his belt, and then he told me in a steady voice farther away than fear: "Yank it off, boy, what does it matter." View quote
Che Guevara
You can call it a cheap shot, blind shot, a late hit; you can call it what you want and it should've been a suspension as far as I'm concerned! It's unbelievable that it's not a suspension! What it did, it gave meat to everybody that's against the National Hockey League-this'll be the poster boy...[while showing clips of controversial hits by Cooke over the years]!! You think he'd do this stuff against [Wayne] Gretzky, if [Dave] Semenko was there?! Do you think he'd do this against [Steve] Yzerman if [Bob] Probert was there?! NO! That's what I'm trying to tell you, he wouldn't do that stuff! (Don Cherry)
What a curious portrait this is for the supposed founder of a religion. The Old Boy didn't preach. He didn't organize or promote. He wrote a few pages on request, rode off on a water buffalo, and that was it was far as he was concerned. View quote
Huston Smith
"No war makes Johnny McCain a sad boy.”. View quote
Ilana Mercer
I've always had numinous dreams, and a lot of them feature a Dionysian character I named The Boy in the Tree. View quote
Elizabeth Hand
As we see a future Painter in the boy who fills every wall with sketches and variedly adds colour to figure; so we see a future Philosopher in him who restlessly traces and questions all natural things, pays heed to all, brings together whatever is remarkable, and rejoices when he has become master and possessor of a new phenomenon, of a new power and piece of knowledge. View quote
Novalis
It's amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk? View quote
James Richardson
It's very stressful becoming a parent. You know what was hard for me? Coming up with names for our children. I panic when I have to name a new document on my computer.... I got so desperate toward the end of my wife's third pregnancy that I found myself reading the credits at the end of movies, looking for names. Which means at some point, I'll have to explain to my little boy that he was named after the key grip on "Dude, Where's my Car?". View quote
Jeff Stilson
Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one. View quote
Jim Hightower
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury. View quote
Horace
O ye Gods, and O great Jove, Have pity on a father's love And hear Evander's prayer: If 'tis your purpose to restore My Pallas to my arms once more; If living is to see his face, Then grant me life, of your dear grace: No toil too hard to bear. But ah! if Fortune be my foe, And meditate some crushing blow, Now, now the thread in mercy break, While hope sees dim and cares mistake, While still I clasp thee darling boy, My latest and my only joy, Nor let assurance, worse than fear, With cruel tidings wound my ear. View quote
John Conington
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one. (Hillary Clinton)
There's something very special indeed, In all the places where I've seen you shine, boy. View quote
Kate Bush
Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young. View quote
Kin Hubbard
I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. View quote
Günter Grass
The only way out was to do what Sissy demanded-go out and kill this woman and her little boy. And then try to forget he had ever done it. View quote
Lis Wiehl