Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

Theodore Roosevelt

I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

Theo Rossi

Biker chicks want the bad boy.

Margaret Mitchell

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Marcus Buckingham

Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

Kin Hubbard

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

Michael Fassbender

Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.

Michael Bond

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

Melissa Rosenberg

I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.

Michelle Borth

I like to hang with the boys and I like to prove that I can be one of the boys, if not better.

Joseph Brodsky

It's rather an exhilarating feeling. It's 6 or 7 when you get up and go out into the fields wearing your Wellingtons or high boots. You know that at this very hour half the nation does the same thing, which gives you, with the benefit of hindsight, a satisfaction in doing those things, too, a knowledge, a sense of the nation. I was a city boy until then.

Joseph Brodsky

I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

Paul Fussell

Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

Patrick Ness

Here is the boy, drowning.

Patrick Ness

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

Patrick Rothfuss

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

Parker Stevenson

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low

Paris Hilton

The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.

Lauren Myracle

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

Lauren Oliver

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

Lauren Oliver

Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

Lilly Pulitzer

Wear pink and make the boys wink.

Paul Stanley

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

Patsy Cline

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

Louis Kahn

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

Liv Tyler

I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.

Michael Cunningham

It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Michael Reagan

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Markus Zusak

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

Markus Zusak

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.