- Little
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, my parents would buy me a new toy and I would destroy it. Oh man, I would destroy it. I don't know why I would do such a thing. I was a little rough when I was a little kid.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being the drummer of Fall Out Boy, and any other project I've ever done, is most importantly about playing for the music. Staying out of the way when it's needed and playing more when it makes sense.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was going to be a little boy about it, I'd go into hiding for one or two years. But if I was going to be a man about it, it'd be 20 or 30 years.
- Bad Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a bad boy as a child.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young boy growing up in New York City, we would spend our summers on the South Fork of Long Island. My dad would take me down to the beach at low tide. We would walk a mile down to the jetties, and he would lower me by my ankles into the crevices between the massive boulders to grab at huge ropes of mussels.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will say this: Boy, did I get lucky to work with Matt Drudge and Arianna Huffington.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I've seen comments about my knees or about my jawline, or people write things like, 'She still has signs of being a boy,' and then I realized that these are beautiful features. I've grown to love them.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because it meant becoming someone else.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know I've watched the All-Star game as a little boy... and to have the opportunity now to play in it is so overwhelming.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020