boys Quotes

I can\'t speak for boys because I\'m not one! But I just imagine they think differently.

Boys have been wearing skirts for some time now. My three assistants wear mini skirts. They come to work on their motorcycles wearing mini skirts. The French saw the idea on the streets and have done it in better fabrics, and now everyone says, \'Ah!\'

I understudied Colm Feore quite a bit in \'85 and \'86 - \'Persephone\' and \'The Boys from Syracuse,\' too - and that was great, great training for me. He was and he is an amazing theatre actor.

It\'s no wonder we\'re all such a mess, is it? We\'re like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie\'s great young adult novel \'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian.\' I told my son it was highly inappropriate for him and one of the most banned books in America. That got his attention, and he raced through it.

As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents\' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.

I read in the paper today the list of the most popular boys\' names in Britain. The first was Jack, the second was Mohammed. That makes me feel a little bit worried.

I have five children. There were four boys. The fifth, I got weak, and a girl came.

Although, okay, in Scotland, the boys wear the skirts. But as far as pop culture, women were on the forefront of the unisex movement and I\'m grateful to you.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always - well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

Some boys are particular about how they look. I\'m not.

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn\'t, and neither did we.

Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?

Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be.

I spar with Nick and Nate Diaz... those boys know what they\'re doing; they can throw their hands.

To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

To the man who reads \'Scouting for Boys\' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

From the boys\' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

I\'m a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There\'s boys out there doing what they\'ve got to do, and there\'s people digging holes, and there\'s people driving buses. And there\'s nothing wrong with that.

When posh boys are in trouble they sack their servants.

I\'ve worked with people from Fred Zinnemann, John Huston, through to Richard Fleischer, all of those boys from Hollywood and so on, and Sam Peckinpah and then the Mike Radfords.

Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.

Our boys are born with great potential for nurturing, caring, loving, and serving. Let's stop training it out of them.

The boys looked inside themselves. The girls looked outside themselves. We forgot how to know when we learned how to please. This is why we live hungry.

Ten is when we learn how to be good girls and real boys. Ten is when children begin to hide who they are in order to become what the world expects them to be.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

We don\'t really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don\'t encourage boys to be whole.