Boy's Quotes
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness.
willa cather— Part I, Ch. 1
To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.
— 1845 Sybil, bk.1, ch.5.
A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— 1855 'My LostYouth', in Putnam's Monthly Magazine, vol.6, Aug. Collected in The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems, 1858. In his diary Longfellow notes that these lines are from an 'old Lapland song'.
A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
George Bernard Shaw— 1903 JohnTanner. Man and Superman, act1.
What money is better bestowed than that of a school- boy's tip?
william makepeace thackeray— 1853-5 The Newcomes, vol.1, ch.16.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's lifewhenhehas a ragingdesiretogosomewhereand dig for hidden treasure.
— 1876 TheAdventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.25.
If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.
joycelyn elders— Jessica Valenti (2014-05-23). "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool". Feministing.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.
A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalkThe first song of his happiness, and the song wokeHis heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.
galway kinnell— First Song (1983)
A boy's will is the wind's will.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, My Lost Youth.
Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.
margaret atwood— Wilderness Tips (1991)
Yes, he loved his mother like no other, His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother. One thing on which you can depend is, He sure knew who a boy's best friend is.
tom lehrer— "Oedipus Rex"
A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— My Lost Youth, refrain (1858)
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.
james kenneth stephen— To R. K.
A boy's will is the wind's will.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, My Lost Youth.
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, scene vi
Physical fitness is a way of life – a commitment to exercise, eat right, and care for your body.
— The Boy's Fitness Guide (2008), by Frank C. Hawkins, Rares Nick Morar, and Gheorghe Muresan.
He's mad, that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
— The Fool, Scene VI
A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, My Lost Youth, (1858), refrain
