Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Morgan Freeman

I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

Mordecai Richler

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

Jonathan Winters

I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.

Jonathan Stroud

Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward. And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.

Jonathan Stroud

The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.

Jonathan Stroud

I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you" - here I rolled my shoulders back and puffed my chest up menacingly - "is but the meanest and least impressive of my slaves." (Here I slumped my shoulders and stuck my stomach out.)

Kevin Spacey

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

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

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

M. Russell Ballard

Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.

Luther Burbank

Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him.

Lupe Fiasco

I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour

John Boyne

... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

John Boyne

The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy

John Boyne

Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

John Armstrong

The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.

You know, the boys scoring over 200 points, I've never had a track team score 200 points before. Obviously, everybody did great.

Angela Ruggiero

You know that little girls and boys are watching and will try to emulate you. We're all role models.

Angelina Jolie

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

The kids always thought I lived there. I had one little boy who used to call the daycare my house.

The injuries were not visible when the boy had clothes on.

Lauryn Hill

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

Laini Taylor

There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

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....

Thomas A. Edison

The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

Shel Silverstein

And the boy loved the tree.......very much. And the tree was happy.

Shel Silverstein

Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

Shel Silverstein

... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.