Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny Rogers

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

Margaret Cho

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.

Mark Twain

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

Mark Twain

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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!

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.

For the boys, it's that brotherly feeling, ... They talk about male issues that boys can care for each other. Same with girls. We do a lot of teaming.

Ishmael Beah

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

Isla Fisher

I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.

Ike Turner

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

Huston Smith

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Gloria Steinem

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

Gloria Steinem

I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Gerard Depardieu

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture.

J. K. Rowling

To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!

J. K. Rowling

Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.

J. K. Rowling

He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. And notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which, according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far — something that neither your parents, nor Neville’s parents, ever achieved.