Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom O'Connor

Grades are more important, so they needed to be there. We talked during the week about self-discipline, that these boys are all smart enough to get good grades and play ball. It just takes work.

For the little guy, it's getting harder and harder to compete with the big boys.

John Eldredge

For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.

For the first time since I've been coaching, we have more girls than boys.

Elton John

The Backstreet Boys can sing their asses off. I'm not so sure about those other boy bands. But Backstreet Boys have my ultimate respect.

Hugh Laurie

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

Hugh Jackman

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

Horace

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

Horace

He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]

Homer

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

Homer

A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

Homer

Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!

George Canyon

I figured Matt and the boys would win this -- they've been cleaning up.

William Tyndale

If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives the plough to know more of the scriptures than you do

John C. McGinley

I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got a wheelbarrow, a pick and a shovel, and I started to build a baseball field during writers' strike. We have boys and girls come over and we have clinics in the spring. It's called The Strike because it's named for the writers' strike.

Cowboy Troy

I come out in the middle of their set and kind of shift gears a little bit, ... and then the boys take back over.

I changed up my (boys) singles lineup quite a bit, and I saw some of the boys rise to the challenge.

Gwen Davis

I cannot express how I feel about the loss of our son. He can't watch his boys grow up because of what these vicious, selfish punks did. He no longer can say, 'I love you Mom.'

David Shore

I do think there is a 15-year-old boy in that character, but with the power of an adult.

I am very proud of the way the boys overcame their past, and the way that the younger girls stepped up and helped out the team.

I am proud of the boys. It's hard to say good-bye to the seniors because these guys got us to a plateau and hopefully next year's bunch can take it from there.

I am proud of our boys. Even though we didn't play the smoothest, we always play hard and we played through it.

I am proud of him. I am real proud. He was fine boy I tell you, it is a great loss.

I don't think we can be disappointed at all. The boys swam faster this year than they did last year.

Hrithik Roshan

Boy, I feel more and more undeserving each moment !!

Horace

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

Gillian Jacobs

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

Giancarlo Esposito

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

Harold Russell

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

Jacques Audiard

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

Jack Youngblood

Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

Franz Grillparzer

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

Jerzy Kosinski

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird