- Father
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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
- Guinea
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and Ninety-second streets. I had a little menagerie of my own, some pigeons, guinea pigs, and so on. On Saturday mornings, I had to take my music lesson. Then the members of my team used to come see my menagerie.
- Nov 07, 2020
Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I went.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky that I get to eat this.' I would eat a shrimp enchilada, shrimp burrito, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, shrimp po boy, shrimp gumbo.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eggs is a kind of a plucky, brave 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a boxtroll. And he's kind of one of these mythological feral children who are raised in isolation of humanity and, by virtue of that, have a deeper connection to humanity because they've been raised away from the poisons of society.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020