Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa See

Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.

Johnny Depp

I'm not Blockbuster Boy.

Johnny Depp

I'm not 'Blockbuster Boy.' I never wanted to be. I wasn't looking for that....

Liam Payne

The only thing I can say, once again, is thank you, to all of you, to everyone who's supported us so far. From the people who first picked up the phone and voted on x factor, to the people who went into the shop and bought our albums and everybody in between. Thank you so much for a fantastic opportunity and helping me and the boys to where we are today.

Libba Bray

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Libba Bray

Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

Louise Erdrich

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

George Armstrong Custer

Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah!

William Blake

The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.

The Herald Sun Tour is one of the premier cycling events in Australia, so the boys and I are keen to make a good showing in our own country, ... The race actually suits us well, there will be a few bunch kicks and a tough day in the hills, but it should come down to the uphill time trial to decide the overall winner. I hope that either I or Danny Pate has the legs on that day to bring home the win for Jelly Belly.

Don Davis

The hard thing about TV is that you've go to write really fast and you have to make a small orchestra sound big. The great thing about TV is that the restrictions separate the boys from the men.

The Division 1 boys race is wide open because the top two teams from last year aren't there. (Defending champion) Grosse Pointe South looks good in the girls race.

A lot of younger boys stepped up today. We have quite a few underclassmen who did an outstanding job today.

Jackson Katz

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,

Henry Rollins

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.

Henry Rollins

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

Henry B. Eyring

Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

Henry Adams

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

Henry Adams

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Malorie Blackman

Boys don't cry, but men do.

You've got a whole generation of boys ... not caring about getting an education. That has repercussions not just for individual kids but for us as a society.

And six little singing-boys, - dear little souls! / In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles.

All three boys wrestled great over the four days of competition.

Jason Allen

All year long they were saying we can't hang with the big boys and we proved (last Saturday) that we can.

The girls were scared, and the boys were excited.

The girls sprint crew is inexperienced, and the boys distance runners are young.

James Barrie

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

The Clippers are ranked number one in Canada. And I think we could have very easily won that game. The boys were upbeat and positive and they picked up some valuable experience that will serve them well later.

Matt Paxton

(The first three boys) ran as a pack the whole way. They did what they were supposed to do and they pushed each other the whole time. They ran as hard as they needed to.

This is a great opportunity for boys and girls to show off their skills and hopefully participate at a higher level.

Hakeem Olajuwon

All I know is I'm saying this, and somebody's going to read it and say I'm a male chauvinist. That's not the case. It is just different with men and boys with women. It's like raising your kids. Boys are more stubborn. As good, as strong as a mother is, sometimes it takes the father to step in. Oh boy, I can see it now: 'Hakeem is a male chauvinist.' That is not the case.

Eric Hobsbawm

N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied Stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. He was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state

Eric Idle

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.