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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a 'street boy': we grew up on the street, played on the street, did everything out on the street. It was a difficult life altogether, but that's how we grew up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me.
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I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a reputation for doing a certain type of film: lads' movies that glamorise violence. The more my reputation as a bad boy grows, the more my life moves away from that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a good little middle-class boy. I live in Gloucestershire or Kensington. I don't exist in the war zone, but it's certainly not far away. I grew up in an area where it is a war zone - south London.
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- Nov 07, 2020