The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
“They were a traumatized lot, those boys. And I just felt frivolous.”
No Maps for These Territories (2000)
Context: Consequently, when I got to Toronto, much to my chagrin, I really, really couldn't handle hanging out with the American draft dodgers. There was too much clinical depression. Too much suicide. Too much hardcore substance abuse. They were a traumatized lot, those boys. And I just felt frivolous.
“When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.”
as quoted by Horatio B. Williams, Thomas Young, The Man and Physician, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 20, 35-49 (1930).
“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”
TIME (18 July 1983)
Introduction to "Be Prepared"
Songs by Tom Lehrer (1953)
Context: I would like to state at this time that I am not now and have never been... a member of the Boy Scouts of America. Their motto is, as you know, "Be Prepared!" and that is the name of this song.
“Boy am I unqualified for that!”
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (June 4, 2009)
Rachel Maddow on talking fashion.
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 2
GIOIA Magazine Interview
Diary (28 July 1796), quoted in T. W. Moody, R. B. McDowell and C. J. Woods (eds.), The Writings of Theobold Wolfe Tone, 1763–98, Volume II: America, France and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796 (2001), pp. 257–258
