Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.

Leonard Sax

If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

Len Cariou

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

Lena Headey

I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.

Lemmy Kilmister

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

Larry Craig

The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy.

Marcus Aurelius

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

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.

Taylor Swift

Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.

Judy Blume

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

Karlie Kloss

There's no time for boys in my life right now.

Leona Lewis

I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.

Lawrence Welk

Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.

John D. Rockefeller

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

Lilith Saintcrow

Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.

Lilith Saintcrow

No problem, Goth Boy. First one's free.

Lil Wayne

Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys...it's a Mafia thing.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Phil Donahue

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

Peter Jennings

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

Phyllis McGinley

Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

Rachel Cohn

I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.

Rachel Cohn

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love

Puff Daddy

I'm a big Backstreet Boys fan. I always give y'all shoutouts. I love the things y'all do.

Puff Daddy

Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody.

Pixie Lott

I think the boy should pay. 'Cuz that's just the way it works on a first-date. But if he doesn't offer, then I will pay... and then just not go out with him again.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

Placido Domingo

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

Jostein Gaarder

We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.