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Quotes About Boys

Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me.
~ Ann Rinaldi
I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.
~ Jessica Stroup
Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge. A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older. This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.
~ Juliet Marillier
He was the only one interested in me. Of course he isn't, Steve said. Practically every boy in the school would want a chance to... ow, Maisy! Sorry, my elbow slipped.
~ Kailin Gow
And who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If hell did exist, which Jackson was sure it did, it would be governed by a committee of fifteen-year-old Italian boys on bikes.
~ Kate Atkinson
Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.
~ J. D. Salinger
I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.
~ Krista Allen
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.
~ Phyllis McGinley
There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.
~ Bill Walton
Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
~ Carson Daly
Men are boys in bigger packages.
~ Nora Roberts
So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.
~ Marie Lu
When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.
~ Ryan Reynolds
My mother was very protective of her four boys.
~ Maurice Saatchi
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
~ M. William Phelps
I'm bout that fast money, money ain't got no patience. But if them boys come run like you on probation.
~ Nicki Minaj
At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without knowing the cause, soon drowned the voices of both, with still louder lamentations of their own.
~ William Beckford
SINCE Chick Morelli and some of his Italian Community Club members have appeared in the story of the Nortons, they require no special introduction. However, so far they have been seen only as they affected a group of corner boys. In order to understand who the men were and where they were going, it is necessary to step inside the club, observe their actions, and listen to the accounts they give of themselves.
~ William Foote Whyte
Boys are always inarticulate where their deepest feelings are concerned; however much they may desire it they cannot express kind and sympathetic feelings.
~ William Henry Hudson
Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Boys,' she says, 'just aren't very good at being afraid.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.
~ Glenn O'Brien
He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold.
~ Dave Eggers, The Wild Things