Quotes about boys

A collection of quotes on the topic of boy, likeness, girl, doing.

Best quotes about boys

„Sorry I'm late guys, a black cat crossed my path so I had to go the long way.“

— Hatake Kakashi, book Naruto

„And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.“

— Edgar Allan Poe American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809 - 1849

„If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

„I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

„You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.“

— Timothy Leary American psychologist 1920 - 1996

As quoted in Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People (2000) by Darrin Zeer, p. 52

„It takes a very long time to become young.“

— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973

On met très longtemps à devenir jeune.
As quoted by Jean Cocteau The Hand of a Stranger (Journal d'un Inconnu). Horizon Press. 1959 [1953]. http://books.google.com/books?id=HxBJAQAAIAAJ
1950s

„Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.“

— Leo Tolstoy, book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

„I am not young enough to know everything.“

— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900

Variant: I am not young enough to know everything.

„… inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.“

— Terry Pratchett, book Moving Pictures

Source: Moving Pictures

„Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.“

— Emile Zola French writer (1840-1902) 1840 - 1902

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„If you have ever seen the play Peter Pan you will remember how the pirate chief was always making his dying speech because he was afraid that possibly when the time came for him to die he might not have time to get it off his chest. It is much the same with me, and so, although I am not at this moment dying, I shall be doing so one of these days and I want to send you a parting word of goodbye.

Remember, it is the last you will ever hear from me, so think it over.

I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have as happy a life too.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so can enjoy life when you are a man.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn come to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. "Be Prepared" in this way, to live happy and to die happy - stick to your Scout promise always - even after you have ceased to be a boy - and God help you do it.“

— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941

Life, God, People, World

„I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.“

— Niall Horan Irish singer and songwriter 1993

Dare to Dream by One Direction, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422638.Niall_Horan

Love, Girl, Heart

„I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper air-planes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.“

— Niall Horan Irish singer and songwriter 1993

Dare to Dream by One Direction, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422638.Niall_Horan

Girl, Heart

„Life isn't about how popular you are… What girl or boy you are dating or who you know.Life is about always being true to who you are or what you believe in. Never let anyone convince you that their way is better than your way. In the end all we have is our hearts… and our minds. This is the reason we sing… this is the reason we cry… this is why we live.“

— Andrew Biersack American singer-songwriter 1990

Life, Way, Girl, Singing

„The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Love, Learning

„Boy Scout is not merely to give you fun and adventure but that, like the backwoodsmen, explorers, and frontiersmen whom you are following, you will be fitting yourself to help your country and to be of service to other people who may be in need of help. That is what the best men are out to do.“

— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941

Source: Robert Baden-Powell: Scouting for Boys, The Original

Men, People, Help, Country

„I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for.“

— Robert Downey Jr. American actor 1965

Quoted in Dotson Rader, "I rose from the ashes" http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_04-20-2008/1Robert_Downey_Jr, Parade Magazine (2008-04-20)

Guy, Behavior

„.. but what a pity that I did not come here [in Venice] when I was younger and more adventurous.“

— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926

Quote in Monet's letter to art-ritic and friend Gustave Geffroy, 1907; as cited in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 56
1900 - 1920

„The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper“

— Eazy-E American rapper and producer 1963 - 1995

"Neighborhood Sniper", 5150: Home 4 tha Sick (1992).
1990s

Fear

„The worst thing a boy can do is ignore a girl when she's loving you with all her heart.“

— Liam Payne English singer and songwriter 1993

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422617.Liam_Payne

Love, Girl, Heart

„A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

Variant: A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.

Love, Girl, Kiss

„There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were“

— Nina Simone American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist 1933 - 2003

People

„When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.“

— George Burns American comedian, actor, and writer 1896 - 1996

Sea, Dead, Funny

„When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

Source: My Story

Suicide

„I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.“

— Ringo Starr British musician, former member of the Beatles 1940

School

„When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.“

— Isaac Bashevis Singer Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902 - 1991

TIME (18 July 1983)

„I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.“

— Isaac Newton British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics 1643 - 1727

Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) by Sir David Brewster (Volume II. Ch. 27). Compare: "As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore", John Milton, Paradise Regained, Book iv. Line 330

Truth, World, Appearance, Sea

„The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.“

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Romanian politician 1899 - 1938

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Politics

„Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."“

— Diogenes of Sinope ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy -404 - -322 BC

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 27
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

Men

„Give, you gods,
Give to your boy, your Caesar,
The rattle of a globe to play withal,
This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off;
I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.“

— John Dryden, All for Love

Act II, scene II
All for Love (1678)

God, World

„You,” Damon said somewhat indistinctly through the blood in his mouth, “have been a naughty boy, boy.“

— L.J. Smith American author 1965

Source: Nightfall

„I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.“

— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

Children, People, Beauty, Idea

„Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna)“

— Tamora Pierce, book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

Girl, Dance

„J. M. W. Turner's Poem dedicated to Ivan Aivazovsky (1842)

Like a curtain slowly drawn
It stops suddenly half open,
Or, like grief itself, filled with gentle hope,
It becomes lighter in the shore-less dark,
Thus the moon barely wanes
Winding her way above the storm-tossed sea.
Stand upon this hill and behold endlessly
This scene of a formidable sea,
And it will seem to thee a waking dream.
That secret mind flowing in thee
Which even the day cannot scatter,
The serenity of thinking and the beating of the heart
Will enchain thee in this vision;
This golden-silver moon
Standing lonely over the sea,
All curtain the grief of even the hopeless.
And it appears that through the tempest
Moves a light caressing wind,
While the sea swells up with a roar,
Sometimes, like a battlefield it looks to me
The tempestuous sea,
Where the moon itself is a brilliant golden crown
Of a great king.
But even that moon is always beneath thee
Oh Master most high,
Oh forgive thou me
If even this master was frightened for a moment
Oh, noble moment, by art betrayed…
And how may one not delight in thee,
Oh thou young boy, but forgive thou me,
If I shall bend my white head
Before thy art divine
Thy bliss-wrought genius…“

— J.M.W. Turner British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker 1775 - 1851

Source: J.M.W. Turner

Secret, Dreams, Hope, Art

„A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.“

— Jane Austen, book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Love, Imagination, For women, Relationship

„A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.“

— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963

Fools

„It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.“

— Nora Roberts American romance writer 1950

Source: Happy Ever After

„So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.“

— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Life, Mountain, Success

„You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel“

— Tamora Pierce, book First Test

Source: First Test

„Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?“

— Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

Source: In the Hand of the Goddess

Girl

„The idea that I'm a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them… Hell, if you could see my schedule, my work schedule, you knew damn well that I was never out there.“

— John Wayne Gacy American serial killer and torturer 1942 - 1994

Biography - John Wayne Gacy: Monster in Disguise. A & E Home Video, 2000. Watched March 1, 2010.

Idea, Hell

„I have my big-boy pants on right now. I'm trying not to cry!“

— Chris Colfer actor, singer, book author 1990

Interview Quotes, 68th Golden Globes Speech (2011)

Cry

„Sorry, girl. But, you missed out. Well tough luck; that boy's mine now. We are more than just good friends; this is how the story ends. Too bad that you couldn't see; see the man that boy could be. There is more than meets the eye; I see the soul that is inside. He was a boy, she was girl. Can I make it any more obvious? We are in love, haven't you heard? How, we rock each other's world!“

— Avril Lavigne Canadian singer-songwriter and actress 1984

"Sk8er Boi"
Let Go (2002)

Love, World, Soul, Girl

„I lived in Hollywood and I had all that, the Rolls Royce and the Ferrari and the pad in Beverly Hills. I had the surf board and the Beach Boys and the bishkis and the Neil Diamond and the ramskam and the Jimmy shriffen [ph. ] and the Elvis Presley's best of bestlies and all them guys. The Dean and Martins and the Nancy Sinatras and the cops and sovereigns, "Will you do it to me? I hear you do it good honey" and all that kind of "Will you come up to my house later?" So I went through all that and I seen that was a bigger prison than the one I just got out of and I really didn't care to go back in prison. See, prison doesn't begin and end at the gate. Prison is in the mind. It's locked in one world that's dead and dying, or it's open to a world that's free and alive.“

— Charles Manson American criminal and musician 1934 - 2017

NBC interview (1987)

World, Guy, Housing, Dead

„The boys in my grade talked about sex a lot. Some of them even told me that they had sex with their girlfriends. This was the most devastating and traumatizing thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Boys having sex at my age of Fourteen? I couldn’t fathom it. How is it that they were able to have such intimate and pleasurable experiences with girls while I could only fantasize about it? I frequently started asking myself. This was an all-boys school… How in the hell were those boys even able to meet girls to have sex with? I wondered. I hoped they were lying. I hoped against all hope. […] and one of my obnoxious classmates named Jesse was bragging about having sex with his girlfriend. I defiantly told him that I didn’t believe him, so he played a voice recording of what sounded like him and his girlfriend having sex. I could hear a girl saying his name over and over again while she panted franticly. He grinned at me smugly. I felt so inferior to him, and I hated him.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 14

Life, Hate, Pleasure, Age

„Ever since I was a little boy, I would study composition. And it was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky that influenced me the most. If you take an album like Nutcracker Suite, every song is killer, every one. So I said to myself, 'Why can't there be a pop album where every…' — People used to do an album where you'd get one good song, and the rest were like B-sides, they'd call them "album songs" — and I'd say to myself 'Why can't every one be like a hit song? Why can't every song be so great that people would want to buy it if you could release it as a single?. So I always tried to strive for that. That was the purpose for the next album.“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

On musical influences
Ebony interview (2007)

People, Study

„My boys may charge me with all they want. The main thing is, it helps them. They are not evil and no criminals. They are the products of total war, grown up on the streets of scattered towns without any education! The only thing [they] knew was to handle weapons for the Dream of [the] Reich. They were young people with a hot heart and the desire to win or to die, according to the word: right or wrong—my country!“

— Joachim Peiper SS officer 1915 - 1976

Letter to Willis Everett, July 4, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 5.

War, People, Education, Dreams

„I excused myself as soon as I finished eating, and boy did I stuff myself on that meal. I then walked outside onto the beach. The wine had long since gone to my head, making me feel a sense of dizzy invigoration. I started walking along the shore, taking in the magnificence of the gentle, moonlit ocean. It was so… romantic. I kept walking and walking with no destination in mind. The romance of it all filled me with despair and longing. I wanted a girlfriend to experience that moment with me, but no girl wanted to be my girlfriend. The only thing I could do was imagine how heavenly it would be to have a beautiful girl by my side. It is such a shameful tragedy.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

I ended up walking for two hours, and at the end of it I was crying to myself because I felt so sad.
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 19, Longing

Beauty, Feeling, Imagination, Girl

„I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!“

— Miley Cyrus American actor and singer-songwriter 1992

Guy, Girl

„Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.“

— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC

Youth, Hope, Hope

„Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.“

— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962

People, Beauty, Art, Nature

„A second floor window opened, and Kyle stuck his head and shoulders out so he could look down at us. “If you two are finished playing Cowboy and Indian out there, some of us would like to get their beauty sleep.”

I looked at Warren. “You heard ‘um Kemo Sabe. Me go to my little wigwam and get ‘um shut-eye.”

“How come you always get to play the Indian?” whined Warren, deadpan.

“Cause she’s the Indian, white boy,” said Kyle.“

— Patricia Briggs, book Iron Kissed

Source: Iron Kissed

Beauty, Sleep

„No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.“

— Sarah Kane playwright from England 1971 - 1999

Cry

„I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.“

— Woodrow Wilson American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921) 1856 - 1924

War, Fight

„There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?“

— David Foster Wallace American fiction writer and essayist 1962 - 2008

Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

Way, Hell, Fish, Water

„One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.“

— Alan Bennett, The History Boys

Source: The History Boys

Learning, Teachers

„He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.“

— Gabriel García Márquez, book Love in the Time of Cholera

Variant: .. the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Memory, Past, Heart

„Damien has died and gone straight to gay boy heaven,' Shaunee said…“

— P. C. Cast American writer 1960

„But remember this, Japanese boy… airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.“

— Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises

Source: The Wind Rises

Money, War, Beauty, Dreams

„Jesus paid for salvation for every man, woman, boy, and girl who would ever live on this earth. But people must believe on Jesus and receive Him as their own Savior before salvation can benefit them.“

— Kenneth E. Hagin American theologian 1917 - 2003

Source: Biblical Ways To Receive Healing

People, Girl

„Building muscle also increases testosterone, and when you've been in a boy band as long as I have, you can never get enough of that!“

— Nick Carter singer from the United States 1980

„Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.

But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up quick.“

— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958

Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

Girl

„If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working. He who goes to trends and tells his troubles when he feels like that loses part of his manliness, part of the best that's in him; your friends can only be those who themselves struggle against it, who raise your activity by their own example of action.“

— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890

Quote in his letter from Drenthe, The Netherlands, Oct. 1883, 'Van Gogh's Letters', http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/13/336.htm
1880s, 1883

Feeling, Silence, Parting, Painting

„The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.“

— Markus Zusak, book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Love, Hate, Cute

„No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Ashes

Jace to Alec, pg. 311
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

„The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.“

— Holly Black American children's fiction writer 1971

Love, Heart

„The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.“

— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941

Game

„What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.“

— Gena Showalter American writer 1975

Source: Oh My Goth

Smile

„Sanguine chuckled. "I like you, boy. You got optimism in these bones. I like you so much that I ain't gonna tell you what I did to poor old Jethro, the first Jethro, may he rest in peace, may they someday find his head.“

— Derek Landy Irish children's writer 1974

Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant

Peace, Optimism

„And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married…?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Love, Romantic

„A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.“

— Mickey Mantle Professional baseball player 1931 - 1995

Courage, For Team, Courageous

„Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.“

— Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546

Earliest record is in a circular letter from Hessian Church minister Karl Lotz on 5 October 1944 and modified from a quote by Johanan ben Zakai according to [Landes, Richard Allen, Heaven on Earth: The varieties of the millennial experience, USA, Oxford University Press, 2011, 978-0-19-975359-8, https://books.google.com/books?id=seS-0JTykgoC&pg=PA48, 48]

Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Martin Luther / Disputed
Misattributed

World, Tree, Deep, Inspirational

„You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.“

— Janet Fitch, book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Age, Beauty, Lovers

„Last name Ever/ First name Greatest/ Like a sprained ankle boy, I aint nothing to play with“

— Drake Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor 1986

"Forever" featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem
2000s

„As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.“

— Jonathan Swift, book A Tale of a Tub

Sect. 7
A Tale of a Tub (1704)

„A falling-down wreck on the edge of town, curtains permanently drawn, that would turn out to have been home to some ancient recluse who'd been surviving on ramen and toenail clippings since time immemorial, though no one realizes it until a property appraiser or an overly ambitious census taker barges in to find the poor soul returning to dust in a La-Z-Boy. People get too old to care for a place, their family writes them off for one reason or another—it's sad, but it happens.“

— Ransom Riggs, book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children

Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 3, Page 79

People, Sadness, Family, Home

„When I was a little boy, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised, the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me.“

— Emo Philips American comedian 1956

The Guardian - The best God joke ever - and it's mine! (September 1980)

Wisdom, Way, Forgiveness, Night

„Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.“

— Fred Dibnah English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering 1938 - 2004

Unsourced

Way

„Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!“

— Charles Dickens, book Hard Times

Bk. I, Ch. 1
Hard Times (1854)

Life, Children, Girl, Animals

„Just some good ol' boys,
Never meaning no harm.
Beats all you never saw
Been in trouble with the law
Since the day they were born.“

— Waylon Jennings American country music singer, songwriter, and musician 1937 - 2002

Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys), from Music Man (1979).
Song lyrics

Law

„There’s no better feeling than winning when you’re up against it. More than anything I can’t wait to get back in the dressing room and celebrate with the rest of the boys.“

— Joe Root English cricketer 1990

After England vs. South Africa, quoted on Express.co.uk, "Revealed: What Joe Root said to inspire England to World T20 South Africa win" https://www.express.co.uk/sport/cricket/653851/Joe-Root-Moeen-Ali-World-T20-India-England-South-Africa-cricket-news, March 19, 2016.

Feeling, Waiting

„Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?“

— Nathan Bedford Forrest Confederate Army general 1821 - 1877

Said to his men at Shiloh, 1862. As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell.
1860s

Help

„Yeah I love my baby, heart and soul
Love like ours won't never grow old
She's my sweet little thang, she's my pride and joy
She's my sweet little baby, I'm her little lover boy“

— Stevie Ray Vaughan American guitarist, songwriter and recording artist 1954 - 1990

"Pride and Joy"
Song lyrics

Love, Soul, Lovers, Heart

„I took my baby on a Saturday bang,
Boy, is that girl with you?
Yes, we're one and the same.
Well, I believe in miracles,
And a miracle has happened tonight,
But if you're thinking about my baby,
It don't matter if you're black or white.“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

Dangerous (1991)

Girl, Thinking, Baby

„Small boys everywhere know that in a fight between Superman, James Bond and the Terminator, James Bond would win. Well, it's the same story in Star Wars. In a fight between the Enterprise, Stingray, Thunderbird 2 and the Millennium Falcon, the Falcon would reign supreme. It just would. The end.“

— Jeremy Clarkson English broadcaster, journalist and writer 1960

I Know You Got Soul (2004)

War, Star, Fight

„No one has the right to make a boy learn Latin, because learning is a matter for individual choice; but if in a Latin class, a boy fools all the time, the class should throw him out, because he interferes with the freedom of others.“

— A.S. Neill, book Summerhill

Source: Summerhill (1960), p. 356

Fools, Freedom, Learning, Time

„It is the most foolish of all errors for young people of good intelligence to imagine that they will forfeit their originality if they acknowledge truth already acknowledged by others.“

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832

Der thörigste von allen Irrthümern ist, wenn junge gute Köpfe glauben, ihre Originalität zu verlieren, indem sie das Wahre anerkennen, was von andern schon anerkannt worden.
Maxim 254, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

People, Truth, Error, Imagination

„If you think being dysfuncted and damaged, strapped to your baggage, dirty, ruined and hurt like critical, cynical, scathing, if you're lost or have come up missing, scarred and scared (or pretending you aren't), when you think that's all you've got, it's not. The sadness you wear around like a trophy is intriguing at most, but it's miserable, and about as original as a frat boy with a visor cap. So step up.“

— Buddy Wakefield American poet 1974

Moving Forward
Poetry

Sadness, Thinking, Hurt

„Forests in the day are friendly places. They remind you of Sunday walks, swooshing leaves, holding a parent's big, warm hand, or providing that hand yourself. At night the woods take the gloves off and remind you why you're nervous in the dark. Night forests say "Go find a cave, monkey-boy, this place is not for you."“

— Michael Marshall Smith British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer 1965

Source: The Lonely Dead (2004), Ch. 1

Parent, Night

„I did, however, pass by one young girl, and she was like a goddess who came down from heaven. She was walking alone, in her bathing suit, with her luscious blonde hair blowing in the wind. I couldn’t help but slyly admire her beauty as we passed by each other. I was scared. I was scared that she might view me as nothing but an inferior insect who’s presence ruins her atmosphere. Her beauty was intoxicating! And then, just as we passed each other, she actually looked at me. She looked at me and smiled. Most girls never even deigned to look at me, and this one actually looked at me and smiled. I had never felt so euphoric in my life. One smile. One smile was all it took to brighten my entire day. The power that beautiful women have is unbelievable. They can temporarily turn a desperate boy’s whole world around just by smiling.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 19, Longing

Life, Women, World, Smile

„I mean it seems like there are only two options for songwriters [sic] personalities either theyre [sic] sad, tragic visionaries like morrissey or michael stipe or robert smith or theres [sic] the goofy, nutty white boy, Hey lets party and forget everything people like Van Halen or all that other Heavy metal crap.“

— Kurt Cobain, book Journals

Source: Journals (2002), p. 44

People, Sadness, Personality, Forgetting

„He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.“

— Avril Lavigne Canadian singer-songwriter and actress 1984

"Sk8er Boi"
Let Go (2002)

„And in that moment we all thought of the space that her round arms would occupy moving backward and forward with the rolling pin over the dough, her bosom leaning over the great mound of flour and eggs, […] and we thought of the space the flour would occupy, and the wheat for the flour, and the fields to raise the wheat, and the mountains from which the water would flow to irrigate the fields; […] of the space it would take for the Sun to arrive with its rays, to ripen the wheat; of the space for the Sun to condense from the clouds of stellar gases and burn; of the quantities of stars and galaxies and galactic masses in flight through space which would be needed to hold suspended every galaxy, every nebula, every sun, every planet, and at the same time we thought of it, this space was inevitably being formed, at the same time that Mrs. Ph(i)Nk0 was uttering those words: "… ah, what noodles, boys!" the point that contained her and all of us was expanding in a halo of distance in light-years and light-centuries and billions of light-millennia, and we were being hurled to the four corners of the universe, […] and she, dissolved into I don't know what kind of energy-light-heat, she, Mrs. Ph(i)Nk0, she who in the midst of our closed, petty world had been capable of a generous impulse, "Boys, the noodles I would make for you!," a true outburst of general love, initiating at the same moment the concept of space and, properly speaking, space itself, and time, and universal gravitation, and the gravitating universe, making possible billions and billions of suns, and of planets, and fields of wheat, and Mrs. Ph(i)Nk0s, scattered through the continents of the planets, kneading with floury, oil-shiny, generous arms, and she lost at that very moment, and we, mourning her loss.“

— Italo Calvino, book Cosmicomics

Pages 46-47, "All at One Point".
Cosmicomics (1965)

Love, World, Mountain, Star

„I discovered when we suffer, we suffer as equals. And in their capacity to suffer, a dog is a pig is a bear..... is a boy“

— Philip Wollen Australian philanthropist 1950

"Animals Should Be Off the Menu" (2012)

Dogs, Suffering

„There is no way I am going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.“

— Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex a member of the British royal family 1984

Regarding his desire to be deployed in the Iraq War. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4248234.stm (2005).

Way, Home, Fight, Country

„20.02.94, Kyiv, 18:15 a boy from the crowd:
- Sofia Mihailovna, how many languages do you speak?
- I speak Moldavian, Ukrainian and Russian, but what is important is that we understand each other.“

— Sofia Rotaru Ukrainain soviet and Ukrainian musician, singer, songwriter, actress, author of Moldavian origin 1947

Understanding

„That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.“

— Jerome K. Jerome, book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

"On Memory".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

Way, Memory

„The Urning is not by a hair’s breadth any more dangerous to immature boys than the genuine man is to immature girls. For the rest, I gladly leave the child molester to his deserved punishment by the law. Let the integrity of a will-less minor be sacred to every Urning.“

— Karl Heinrich Ulrichs German jurist, writer and pioneer of LGBT human rights 1825 - 1895

Forschungen über das Rätsel der mannmännlichen Liebe (Investigation of the Enigma of Homosexual Love) (1898); cited in: Citizens Allied for Civic Action (CAFCA), http://www.qrd.org/qrd/religion/anti/annotated.pink.swastika The Annotated Pink Swastika http://www.qrd.org/qrd/religion/anti/annotated.pink.swastika. p. 11

Law, Girl

„I ordered my coffee and sat down on one of their chairs to relax. A few moments later, when I looked up from my drink, I saw a young couple standing in line. The two of them were kissing passionately. The boy looked like an obnoxious punk; he was tall and wore baggy pants. The girl was a pretty blonde! They looked like they were in the throes of passionate sexual attraction to each other, rubbing their bodies together and tongue kissing in front of everyone. I was absolutely livid with envious hatred. When they left the store I followed them to their car and splashed my coffee all over them.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Building to Violence

Cars, Girl, Coffee, Drink

„There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy…“

— Eden ahbez American songwriter and recording artist 1908 - 1995

"Nature Boy" (1948) - Nat King Cole performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw - Pat Boone and Nat King Cole duet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NaWYZI2Nzo

„"You and I are real, Teddy, aren't we?"
The bear's eyes regarded the boy unflinchingly. "You and I are real, David." It specialized in comfort.“

— Brian W. Aldiss, book Super-Toys Last All Summer Long

Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)

„The Men! O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem! Immortal Cherubims! And young men glittering and sparkling Angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should die; But all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places.“

— Thomas Traherne English poet 1636 - 1674

Third Century, sect. 3.
Centuries of Meditations

Life, Men, Age, Beauty

„You've got a degree in philosophy,
So you think you're cleverer than me.
But I'm not just some drama queen,
Cos it's where you're at not where you've been.
So what do you expect from me,
To hold your head above the sea?
And there are you even though you're bigger,
Cos don't you know you crush my tiny figure?
And anyway we're still so young
And this isn't yet the day.
I can't help you if you won't help yourself.“

— Amy Winehouse English singer and songwriter 1983 - 2011

Help Yourself
Song lyrics, Frank (2003)

Thinking, Help, Sea

„I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently.“

— Rick Astley British singer and songwriter 1966

As quoted in "Rick Astley: The pop idol returns" in The Independent (13 October 2005)

People

„I love my fans, but no one ever puts a grasp on the fact I've sacrificed everything I have. I never dreamt I'd get to the level that I'm at. This is whack, this is more than I ever coulda asked. Everywhere I go, a hat, a sweater hood or mask, what about math, how come I wasn't ever good at that? It's like the boy in the bubble who never could adapt. I'm trapped, if I could go back, I never would've rapped.“

— Eminem American rapper and actor 1972

"Say Goodbye Hollywood"
2000s, The Eminem Show (2002)

Love

„Looking back on when I was a little nappy-headed boy,
Then my only worry was for Christmas, what would be my toy?
Even though we sometimes would not get a thing,
We were happy with the joy the day would bring.“

— Stevie Wonder American musician 1950

I Wish
Song lyrics, Songs In The Key of Life (1976)

Joy, Christmas, Happiness

„That means a lot, it goes from generation to generation, and you can't wonder why, and I think it's because it's such a good energy in it, and I think the girls and boys, they want to dress like us, and they want to sing along.“

— Agnetha Fältskog Swedish recording artist and entertainer 1950

On other musicians who has 'grown up' listening to ABBA, who wants to work with Agnetha; Interview on 'Loose Women', Interviewer: Carol Vorderman, ITV 16 May 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7USzqiSflss

Girl, Thinking, Singing