Famous Quotes & Sayings

In those days we usually had 12 to 15 boys with two staff. We worked 24/7. You can imagine the great experiences we had. Who could forget such things as catching those 'wild' horses when the boys were going to ride horses. The mini-bikes program provided excellent times for the children and the staff. Of course, it was the staff that always got injured.

Chris Hadfield

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.

Michael Leunig

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

Jude Law

Women like bad boys…Being a good boy never worked for me.

It's very exciting. The boys are excited. They got pumped up. It was excellent.

It's very very sad for a young boy to take off like that and go to heaven.

It's very, very disappointing because of our toughness. We showed it in the first half, and then for 12 minutes in the second half there was none. There was a bunch of little boys running around out there.

Nate McMillan

I want to give coach Hill credit for having his boys ready to play. With all their suspensions and injuries, that team came out and played really hard. That's a testament to coach Hill.

I want to know that it's real. I guess my boy really is not coming home.

I want them to replace the tires. I want their parents and the boys to come in to my house and sit down at our dining room table and tell my husband and I why they felt they needed to do this.

I wanted to make it really special on Valentine's day, so I tied my boyfriend up. And for three solid hours I watched whatever I wanted on TV.

John Flaherty

I started my career with the Red Sox and proceeded to live out my boyhood dreams in Major League Baseball. Thank you to all of my teammates, coaches, managers and fans for making the ride so much fun.

It was a disappointing loss. I'm not down on the boys. They put themselves in position to win the game. We just couldn't get it done.

It took us a little while. We had to get the right personnel out there. Our boys keep finding a way to win. They play well in their roles and they know the team philosophy.

Georgette Heyer

I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!

Horace

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

Herman Melville

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

Henry David Thoreau

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.

Henry David Thoreau

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Henry David Thoreau

Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Jill Scott

One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, 'Oh, boy. I like this.'

Jeremy Clarkson

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.

Jeff Sessions

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years. I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.

Jeff Sessions

I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I'm not sure why I was there.

Ferdinand Marcos

Little boys have amazing minds.

Fay Wray

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, 'I've been waiting to meet you for half my life.'

Federico Garcia Lorca

At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone

Ezra Taft Benson

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Eugene Ormandy

Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

Eugene Mirman

Like if you're Jewish you have to wear a hat, but only in the middle of your head. But it all becomes clear the second that you realize that God is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's.

Eugene Mirman

God is a twelve year old boy with Asperger's.

Frances O'Grady

Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

Francesca Lia Block

Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.