Boy Quotes

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

Mother, Fool, Woman

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain

Lie, Youth, Ignorant

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Him, Give, Goes

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
Steve Jobs

Down, Older, Ask

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Win

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.
Bill Cosby

Girl, Away, Her

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns

Sick, Dead, Sea

I'm not Blockbuster Boy.
Johnny Depp

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
Stephen King

Heart, Person, Small

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King

Heart, Small, Why

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

Great, Truth, Before

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
Rodney Dangerfield

Control, Year, Asked

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
Steve Martin

Different, Word, French

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle

Courage, Team, Coward

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

Great, Real, May

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Down, Before, Around

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Loyalty, Down, Before

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
Hillary Clinton

Women, Two, Between

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Charles Dickens

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Fact, Everybody

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow

Become, Beginning, President

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
Princess Diana

Loved, Read, Daddy

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?
Donald E. Westlake

Mother, Talk, Gonna

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Newt Gingrich

Politics, Great, Words

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid Newkirk

Pain, Dog, System

I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.
Amy Winehouse

Girl, Before, Lesbian

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
Kin Hubbard

Nothing, Ignore, Young

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
Neil Armstrong

Long, Remember, Born

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
Jon Stewart

Dreams, Feelings, Else

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
Aleister Crowley

Woman, Kiss, Touch

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