- Focused
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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.
- Boy Bands
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.
- Dutch
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they're completely remixed in my head. And often, when I do further reading, I'm quite surprised by the difference between the real story and my memory of the story.
- Conan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think so often about how, when I was starting out at UCB, Conan O'Brien was in town, and on his show back then, they sometimes did character bits, and I started getting paid to dress up as a page or a Dutch boy on his show.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late '60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a decision as a five-year-old boy that my kids will know who their father is.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.
- Choir
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- Nov 07, 2020