Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Gurian

The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Michael Gurian

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.

Frank Miller

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

George C. Scott

I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.

Christopher Golden

...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Christina Hoff Sommers

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Christina Aguilera

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

Christina Aguilera

There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

Christian Kane

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

Chris Murray

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

Chris Murray

Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they do so. Straight away

Gertrude Stein

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Francesca Lia Block

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

Fran Lebowitz

When I was young, boys didn't type.

Norah Vincent

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

Norm MacDonald

Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

Nobuo Uematsu

Game Boy is something that I would like to make something for.

Noel Gallagher

They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)

Noel Gallagher

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

Rick Riordan

Stop smiling!” she ordered. “I can see you, Carter. Oh…and, uh, hullo, Walt.” The pot monster made squeaky grinding noises as it stood up straight. One clunky arm rose and tried to fix Sadie’s nonexistent hair. Leave it to Sadie to be self-conscious around boys, even when she’s made out of pots and duct tape.

Rick Riordan

This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper.

Rick Riordan

Now, I figured that the built-up gas in most boys' locker rooms was enough to cause an explosion, so I wasn't surprised when the flaming dodgeball ignited a huge WHOOOOOOOM!

James Barrie

The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's

The course was fast. I loved it. I'm a northern Wisconsin boy through and through, so I'm a homegrown favorite. It was great to be back.

Edward Albee

If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.

Michelle Mone

The market was striving for newness and someone to bring a new concept and invention. We shook the industry up from the big boys who had had the market to themselves. We got lots of PR, invented products and took a market share.

Holly Johnson

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

Jonathan Kozol

You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.

Jonathan Lethem

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

Jonathan Franzen

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.

Thom Yorke

There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.