Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mother Jones

a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.

Veronica Roth

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

Veronica Roth

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-

Veronica Roth

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

Robert Frost

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

Rita Rudner

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

Thomas Otway

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Thomas Hughes

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

Timothy Dalton

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

Thomas S. Monson

When we qualify for the help of the Lord, we can build boys, we can mend men, we can accomplish miracles in His holy service. Our opportunities are without limit.

Sarah Dessen

Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.

Sarah Dessen

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

Sarah Dessen

Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.” Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?

Sarah Dessen

The first boy was always the hardest.

Sarah Dessen

In my group of friends, I was always the one who remembered everything. The stories, the boys my friends and I dated, all the details. So I think a part of me was always filing them away, although at the time I wasn't sure why.

Sandra Bullock

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

Ronnie Hawkins

The bigtime for you is just around the corner. They told me that first in 1952 - boy, its been a long corner. If I dont hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, Im gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

Roger Ebert

I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.

Rod Stewart

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

Rod Stewart

I've been a golden boy for too long.

Robert Powell

A boy is naturally full of humor.

Robert Rauschenberg

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

Robert Plant

Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in five years' time.

Sarah Vowell

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.

Sarah McLachlan

My love, you know you are my best friend . You know that I'd do anything for you, and my love, let nothing come between us. My love for you is strong and true.

Sanjay Dutt

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.

Sandra Oh

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.

Robert B. Laughlin

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

Robert Baden-Powell

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Rob Lowe

Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also thought of my two boys and what kind of example I hoped to be. I would always want them to take charge of their own futures and not be paralyzed by the comfort and certainty of the status quo or be cowed by the judgment of those on the outside looking in.

Richard Linklater

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

Richard Linklater

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

Robert Crumb

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.