Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Hadden

There was a tremendously committed and determined effort from our boys,

There were people who knew them, who are members of our church and that sort of thing. So it does bring it close to home, and we just regret it for these young boys and their families.

It's been six, seven, eight years anyway. It was a team we really wanted to get and we couldn't do it. But we were really fired up coming into tonight's game and the boys came through.

It seems like we've started (in the heavyweights) the last three, four matches. It helps when you have our better boys coming up later. I don't mind finishing up that way.

It's a big boys' game of capture the flag.

Jenny Nimmo

I try not to identify too strongly with any of my characters. I like to stand back and see them objectively. I think this is why I often use boys instead of girls, just in case I get too close and lose the overall picture.

It was always going to be a fast finish when the VIS boys got together and Brad surprised us because we didn't think he had much petrol left in the tank after being away for so long.

It was a lovely day, so quiet. My husband, Tim, and I were skiing with our two boys and a friend in Yellowstone National Park on Dec. 30, when all of a sudden, we heard the noise of a snowmobile.

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.'

Erma Bombeck

With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.

Erma Bombeck

With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.

Erma Bombeck

Every puppy should have a boy.

Florence King

In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.

Florence Welch

At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

Florence Welch

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

Flavor Flav

Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

Flannery O'Connor

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

Cassandra Clare

Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce...

Cassandra Clare

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

Cassandra Clare

Alec drew his hand back with a low whistle. "The Inquisitor meant business." "Of course she did. I'm a dangerous criminal. Or hadn't you heard?" Jace heard the acid in his own tone, saw Alec flinch, and was meanly, momentarily, glad. "She didn't call you a criminal, exactly..." "No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nun

Cassandra Clare

You’re my sister,” he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”—he laughed soundlessly and without any humor—“to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.

Cassandra Clare

Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

Cassandra Clare

But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him

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.