- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boy Quotes
From playground dreams to fatherly reflection.
This collection gathers quotes touching on boyhood in its many forms, from primary-school friendships and boy scout days to a boy's private ambition to become something larger than himself. See also our Boyhood quotes for more on early years.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
To step out at Craven Cottage - week in, week out - as a local boy is just extra special.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
- Change Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and recorded that simple line on my phone. I watched it back and thought it was kinda cheesy, and I was actually going to delete it. But I thought 'Whatever, it's catchy.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.
- Drifted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transition from an English father to a Punjabi stepfather demanded an adjustment that was far from easy for a 10-year-old boy who had just lost his father.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting when you're in your thirties and you're not the same pretty boy that you were when you were 21. I think people's anger at themselves getting older is projected on to you because you become a symbol of that.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020