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Quotes About Boy

Telling a boy in your class that you liked Joni Mitchell was really another way of saying, "If the worst comes to the worst and you knock me up, it'll be okay.
~ Nick Hornby
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. When they were ten he asked her to marry him. When they were eleven he kissed her for the first time... For her sixteenth birthday he gave her an English dictionary and together they learned the words.
~ Nicole Krauss
and at the table next to her was a little boy in a soccer uniform sitting with his mother who told him, The plural of elf is elves. A wave of happiness came over me. It felt giddy to be part of it all. To be drinking a cup of coffee like a normal person. I wanted to shout out: The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!
~ Nicole Krauss
THE BOY A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
~ Nora Roberts
If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It was crazy to run and crazy not to run. How could a boy look past the school's property line, see that free and living world beyond, and not contemplate a dash to freedom? To write one's own story for once. To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one's humanity
~ Colson Whitehead
Ah, piteous boy, Fortune came smiling; was it in jealousy that she then cruelly denied you to me
~ Virgil
This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump.
~ Virginia Woolf
This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump. After
~ Virginia Woolf
How she had loved sound when she was a boy, and thought the volley of tumultuous syllables from the lips the finest of all poetry.
~ Virginia Woolf
During a watch, a ship's boy supervised the half-hourglass
~ Laurence Bergreen
There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
A boy who knits, and an underpants picnic! Could this day get any weirder? I shook my head. No, definitely not.
~ Charise Mericle Harper
We think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy.
~ Charles Dickens
I looked as grateful as any boy possibly could, who was wholly uninformed why he ought to assume the expression.
~ Charles Dickens
What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy.
~ Charles Dickens
We should definitely keep an eye on the children of course, particularly that little Indian boy you mentioned, the son of Sarina Kaur. The genetically enhanced offspring of Kaur is not someone we can afford to ignore. What was his name again?" "Noon. Short for Khan Noonien Singh
~ Greg Cox
Essentially, Goodell is a water boy who makes eight figures.
~ Gregg Easterbrook
The deer carcass hangs from a rafter. Wrapped in blankets, a boy keeps watch from a pile of loose hay. Then he sleeps and dreams about a death that is coming: Inside him, there are small bones scattered in a field among burdocks and dead grass. He will spend his life walking there, gathering the bones together. Pigeons rustle in the eaves. At his feet, the German shepherd snaps its jaws in its sleep.
~ Gregory Orr
I was also puzzled by the vast number of people in history who were put to death because they would not change their religion; indeed, the entire fuss about religion throughout history was inexplicable to a boy
~ James Hilton
He described to me how he would whip such a boy, as if he were unfolding some elaborate mystery. He would love that, he said, better than anything in this world; and his voice, as he led me monotonously through the mystery, grew almost affectionate and seemed to plead with me that I should understand him.
~ James Joyce
I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí].
~ Sonia Rykiel
I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.
~ Tony Harrison