- 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
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone once asked me what I missed most. I said, 'My youth.' I've never been a boy who could run around, go crazy, do this, try that. There wasn't time for that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.
- Rebel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since being a wee boy, I've wanted to be on the pitch at Hampden. I don't know why. I love all the international games and such but I've never been that partisan. But I've always wanted to stand on that pitch.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020