Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Chu

Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.

Judy Chu

Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they may otherwise learn to discount or overlook. We can also offer and model for them definitions of maturity, masculinity, health and success that will enable them to remain grounded in their self-knowledge (e.g. as they encounter societal pressures to conform to group and cultural norms), and to form relationships that will sustain rather than constrain them.

Judy Blume

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

Joshua Harris

The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.

Karlie Kloss

There's no time for boys in my life right now.

Leona Lewis

I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.

Lawrence Welk

Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.

Grant Wood

Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.

John Mayer

I've never been a bad boy.

John Legend

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.

Jimmy Carter

After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

The last two meets, I've seen a lot of improvement in the boys' team, which is good to see. We hope to peak at the right time and this is the time we want to start to see that.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

George Crabbe

Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

Geezer Butler

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.

John D. Rockefeller

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

Paolo Bacigalupi

It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.

Paul McCartney

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

Mel Brooks

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

Martin Buber

The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know: ... the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.

Pink

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

Philippa Gregory

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

Rachel Caine

Michael!” Oliver’s voice came faint through the front door. “Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!” “Trap,” Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael’s arm as he walked by. “Don’t, man.” “What’s he going to do? Make faces at me?

Rachel Caine

CLAIRE:your washing right? shane:i'll pay you for it. claire:what? shane:best high score wins claire:no bet 'wash, dish boy

Rachel Caine

EVE:bite me chillie boy

Rachel Caine

Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?" "Since the bullet actually passed through his brain, then yes, idiot boy, there's certainly brain damage," Oliver said. "It will pass. His brain's the least fragile thing about him." "You say the nicest things," Myrin said. He was slurring his words, and he threw an arm around Oliver's neck. "Marry me.

Paulo Coelho

This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

Phil Ochs

In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

Phil Robertson

To call me in, I'm thinking I don't own a suit, a ring, a watch, a cellphone. I'm dragging up out of the woods here. You boys must be hard up these days.

Peter Stormare

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.