Quotes About Boy Scouts

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

When I was in boy scouts, I slipped on the ice and hurt my ankle. A little old lady had to help me across the street.

When I was 12 years old, I was in the Boy Scouts. The scoutmaster of our troop was in a band that played country music in some of the local clubs on the weekends.

We simply must stand with the Boy Scouts and give them the support they need to make a difference in communities across West Virginia.

I've never stayed in a tent or a caravan in my life, and I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't see the point of going on holiday to enjoy less comfort than I have at home.

I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I'm not sure why I was there.

The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

What is crucial here, however, is this anthropological point: that contemporary science is as cultural as shamanism, opera, Catholicism, or the Boy Scouts. It does not stand outside of culture in a space of perfect objectivity.

The masculinity crisis would return with each backlash. The fledgling Boy Scouts of America claimed one-fifth of all American boys by 1920; its founder's explicit aim was to staunch the feminization of the American male by removing young men from the too powerful female orbit. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Somewhere in the crowd a woman sobbed and collapsed in a faint. She was immediately carried out by two Boy Scouts who happened to be present, and who administered first aid to her in the rest-room, one of them hastily kindling a crackling fire of pine boughs by striking two flints together, while the other made a tourniquet, and tied several knots in his handkerchief.

The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene.

If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

What's the difference between Apple and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.

If, in the face of genocide, governments fear placing their soldiers at risk, he said, then don't send soldiers, send Boy Scouts - which is basically what the world did in the refugee camps [in Zaire].

You know the difference between firefighters and Boy Scouts?" "What?" "Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.