- Encounters
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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
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big boy; I can handle criticism.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.
- Conditioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it's like every young black boy people would see say 'what sport do you play?' instead of just asking 'what do you do?' 'What are you interested in?'
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020