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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
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an only child, particularly if you're a boy without a father, you have to work out for yourself who you're going to be. And I do think, over the years, I've developed a need for control.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The model that I'd always seen as a little boy, as a teenager, as I watched other political careers, I saw people who'd start off in local government, gain experience, move to state government, and then on to federal office. I'd always believed that kind of experience was important.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a delivery boy at one point.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad still hasn't heard 'I Love My Dad,' and I'm sure he'll say something like, 'It's good, but I love your version of 'Little Drummer Boy'!' My dad loves my live albums - he's obsessed with the live version of 'Little Drummer Boy' for some reason.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was rambunctious - a boy's boy, full of energy. I wasn't a bad kid. I just liked to talk.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of 'The Hobbit' as more like a boy's own film, like those annuals from the 1930s and 1940s.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.
- Haul
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Hemingway fan, so in a manner of speaking, I've been fishing with him already. But man, would I love to board Pilar in Key West and head south until we have a day-long battle with a tarpon, haul that bad boy up, then celebrate by telling lies over rum on a Cuban terrace.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young boy, I would watch my mom apply her makeup, so one day, I took a lipstick she had and put it on my mouth, trying to imitate her. It ended up all over my face.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my publicist told me I was going to be in 'People''s Ones to Watch as Maybelline's honoree, at first I was in shock. Then I thought, 'Wow. This is really happening.' I just feel so happy and honored that they would choose a boy in beauty.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020