Top Boys Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Boys quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Tina St. John
I’m ready when you are, Lucan.” “Okay,” he said, shaking his head in defeat. “Let’s go get our boy.
- Tina St. John
Collection: Boys
Image of Kevin Brockmeier
I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.
- Kevin Brockmeier
Collection: Boys
Image of Kevin Brockmeier
I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.
- Kevin Brockmeier
Collection: Boys
Image of Kathryn Stockett
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
- Kathryn Stockett
Collection: Boys
Image of Lilith Saintcrow
Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.
- Lilith Saintcrow
Collection: Boys
Image of Fay Wray
Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."
- Fay Wray
Collection: Boys
Image of Bill Watterson
Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
- Bill Watterson
Collection: Boys
Image of Mary Roberts Rinehart
as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Collection: Boys
Image of Lawrence Welk
Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?
- Lawrence Welk
Collection: Boys
Image of Charles Dudley Warner
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one
- Charles Dudley Warner
Collection: Boys
Image of Jane Rule
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.
- Jane Rule
Collection: Boys
Image of Christopher Golden
...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.
- Christopher Golden
Collection: Boys
Image of Jeffrey Bernard
When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.
- Jeffrey Bernard
Collection: Boys
Image of Stefan Petrucha
Really, boy, unless you're ready to deal with the monster, you shouldn't go looking under the bed.
- Stefan Petrucha
Collection: Boys
Image of Stefan Petrucha
It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.
- Stefan Petrucha
Collection: Boys
Image of William Kent Krueger
Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
- William Kent Krueger
Collection: Boys
Image of Bob Saget
I have the brain of a German Shepherd and the body of a 16-year-old boy; they’re both in my car and I want you to see them
- Bob Saget
Collection: Boys
Image of Ellen Wittlinger
the whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.
- Ellen Wittlinger
Collection: Boys
Image of Dorothy Thompson
No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"
- Dorothy Thompson
Collection: Boys
Image of Emma Roberts
When it comes to love, always be open. Because the second youre not pining after a boy, or a boyfriend, amazing love comes into your life.
- Emma Roberts
Collection: Boys
Image of Tim Bowler
Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.
- Tim Bowler
Collection: Boys
Image of Cintra Wilson
We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.
- Cintra Wilson
Collection: Boys
Image of Mordecai Richler
A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.
- Mordecai Richler
Collection: Boys
Image of Mae West
How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
- Mae West
Collection: Boys
Image of William Tyndale
I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.
- William Tyndale
Collection: Boys
Image of William Tyndale
We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!
- William Tyndale
Collection: Boys
Image of Bill Bradley
The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally.
- Bill Bradley
Collection: Boys
Image of Joyce Johnson
What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a boy you didn't love took you to the movies; now and then you actually had a conversation with someone. The rest of the time -the hours that weren't accounted for-you spent waiting for something to happen to you; when you were particularly desperate, you went out looking for it.
- Joyce Johnson
Collection: Boys
Image of Caitlin Moran
I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject?
- Caitlin Moran
Collection: Boys
Image of Lori Foster
Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.
- Lori Foster
Collection: Boys
Image of Malorie Blackman
Boys don't cry, but men do.
- Malorie Blackman
Collection: Boys
Image of E. Nesbit
Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that they see or hear something quite wonderful and then they are never altogether the same again.
- E. Nesbit
Collection: Boys
Image of Patrick Ness
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
- Patrick Ness
Collection: Boys
Image of C.J. Sansom
Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad
- C.J. Sansom
Collection: Boys
Image of Grant Morrison
There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.
- Grant Morrison
Collection: Boys
Image of Booth Tarkington
They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
- Booth Tarkington
Collection: Boys
Image of Booth Tarkington
This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.
- Booth Tarkington
Collection: Boys
Image of Yelawolf
Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
- Yelawolf
Collection: Boys
Image of Miriam Toews
Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.
- Miriam Toews
Collection: Boys
Image of J. R. Moehringer
To be a man, a boy must see a man
- J. R. Moehringer
Collection: Boys
Image of L.A. Meyer
Ah Padriac. I have often wondered if boys who have flaming red hair up top also have...yep.
- L.A. Meyer
Collection: Boys
Image of L.A. Meyer
Hmmmm...There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.
- L.A. Meyer
Collection: Boys
Image of Keri Hulme
Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.
- Keri Hulme
Collection: Boys
Image of Cressida Cowell
There were dragons when I was a boy.
- Cressida Cowell
Collection: Boys
Image of 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.
- Michael Gurian
Collection: Boys
Image of Michael Gurian
If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.
- Michael Gurian
Collection: Boys
Image of Michael Gurian
The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.
- Michael Gurian
Collection: Boys
Image of Salvador Plascencia
And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.
- Salvador Plascencia
Collection: Boys
Image of Mari Mancusi
Okay, I'll wear the Bite Me shirt,[...]It'll be my standard response to any­one who tries to hit on me." I giggle. "Someone can come up and be like 'Hey babe, what's your sign?' and I'll just point to my shirt." Rayne laughs appreciatively and tosses me the tank top. "Of course they might think you're pointing to your boobs in a 'have at 'em, big boy' kind of way.
- Mari Mancusi
Collection: Boys
Image of James A. Owen
It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.
- James A. Owen
Collection: Boys