Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Van Allsburg

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

Girls weren't supposed to be better than boys and have muscles, ... So I downplayed my accomplishments.

Girls want the same opportunity as boys have.

John Walters

Girls have become users at rates that exceed boys or equal boys now, which never used to be the case.

Maurice Sendak

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

Ian Botham

Freddie and the England boys will all be coming along.

From a music standpoint, there are folks that will be here from Ricky Skaggs to Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys ... more than 250 free performances over those 12 days.

Chris Zylka

I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.

Kind of the trademark of this team all year is we don't give up. I'm proud of the way our boys competed tonight.

But as newcomers, we have felt like the guys who crashed the party a little bit. That's how they look at us, as those boys from New England.

Mike Smith

Basically, when the building was completed a little over a year ago, there was always a hope that the Boys and Girls Club would have a need to expand.

Scott Grimes

Chris is a very experienced, very fast player. We played hard in spurts, and we're coming together better than we did in our first game. We have nine new starters and boys playing positions they haven't played in the past.

Chris is a real hard worker. Sometimes freshmen stay to themselves. But Chris' work ethic is very contagious in practice. He challenges other boys to push it harder. The competitiveness gets everybody going, and practice goes to a much higher level.

Natalia Kills

I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

Ray Winstone

I'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do, and there's people digging holes, and there's people driving buses. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

I have a deep, scratchy voice. Boys would call me Froggy, and my father would often tell me to shut my 'big bazoo.' I remember standing in line for confession. After I walked out, the other kids were like, 'You punched your sister in the face?' Because of my voice, my confession was like speaking into a loudspeaker.

I felt like I let the team down by getting into trouble. I had to let the boys know I was still here.

I feel the boys packed up and ran very well. We definitely have work to do, but for the first meet of the season we performed well.

I thought we really stepped up in the fourth quarter on defense, otherwise we struggled the other three quarters. Offensively I was very pleased with what the boys did. They just seem to step up when they need to and that is something we've been doing all season. This was a good team win and I'm proud of them.

I thought everyone, boys and girls, did very well. We set a lot of P.R.'s (personal records) today.

I thought, all in all, our boys competed pretty hard.

I think the boys knew how big some of those wins were going to be in district. The difference between second and third (in the district) could be the difference between going to state or going home. I think some of the boys set themselves up very well this weekend.

I think the boys, in the second half of the season, have made an effort to look for each other. One of the things we try to do is make the extra pass. ... They're finding their teammates and knocking down shots.

I think the boys have a good shot. They're going to compete.

Lynn Coady

I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

Garth Tander

It is pretty disappointing, really, especially as Rick showed how fast our cars can go. We noticed a drive-line vibration in the morning session, and we tried to fix it before qualifying. Unfortunately, it was worse, and because we thought it could be unsafe, we had to sit it out. However, the boys will change the tail-shaft and we will see how we go tomorrow.

It is something that I refer to as a little miracle. Boys' Town is a secret that we now want for people to know. For the people around that have nothing else to do, I really want to offer them hope. The hope that there is a future out there for them and I want them to understand that there are people out there that care for them. The thing is, they'll not care until they find out that we care.

I thought we'd get a bunch but we only had four for most of last year. This will be the first time we haven't had a boys team. I don't know why they're not coming out for the sport.

Going into an overtime session, you get the feeling that it's going to be over in a minute or it's going to go on for a while. It was exciting in some ways, nerve-wracking in others. I was pleased with the boys that they never gave up.

(Hoffman) was intimidated by the good old boys and she wanted to fit in with the good old boys and she let them do what they wanted to do.

Hockey has always been a big deal here with the boys program. But people are starting to realize what we're doing. That's good, because we really do have a good team.

I don't think you can be the head girls or boys coach and not feel some pressure. That is not a negative. There are high expectations and you get kids who are going to work at it.

I don't think our boys as a group ran quite as well as they did the first meet. We were more spread out.