Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Caine

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

Mason Cooley

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

Michael Moore

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

Michael Gambon

Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.

Michael Grant

Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.

Michael Grant

And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. “Why didn’t you just . . . fade?” Gaia demanded plaintively. “You hit me,” Nemesis said. It was a little boy’s voice coming from Caine’s mouth. “And that’s not okay.

Michael J. Fox

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

Mark Ruffalo

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

Patsy Cline

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

Louis Kahn

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

Michael Cunningham

It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Markus Zusak

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

Markus Zusak

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

Mark Twain

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

Mark Twain

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

Nick Swisher

Let's get those left-field bleacher boys ready to go. I had a great time in right last year, but left field is where it's always been.

Gerry Fleming

Second place is on the line here, boys!

Security forces opened unprovoked fire on boys who were playing cricket in a field.

She wants the puck like I've never seen before. She doesn't care if it's boys or girls (hockey). She wants the puck.

She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the state.

Rick Perlstein

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

Right now it is an obligation for our boys to volunteer because they have to do what we say. Hopefully, we will raise them with the faith to where they will volunteer on their own as they get older. We don't want to force them to do this.

People were surprised - I had skied with the boys all year. It was like I came out of nowhere. Some other schools said like they didn't know who I was.

On Friday, our boys really showed up to wrestle, but on Saturday, we didn't do that as well as we needed to.

Nobody ever gets sick of it there. Especially because of all the Minnesota boys on that team.

Nobody drank, ... We were clean livin' rock 'n' rollers, good 'ol boys who just wanted to make music and took everything for granted. We didn't want a million dollars, we wanted more gigs.

Tony Cox

I am trying to figure out my number one boys team for next year. So we are trying some different combinations.

Chris Coleman

Certainly in the second half, you could see we were nowhere near as fit as the MLS boys, ... They're a good team, and I think they got stronger and stronger as the game went on, and we got weaker and weaker.

But the academies, and the improved technical coaching they offer, must be doing their stuff because we are seeing the first real wave of boys to come out of them and they are turning into some really exciting talents, the wingers especially.

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.