Quotes about Boys

by Futurescopes Research Team
  1. My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them. - Victoria Abril, Actress
    04-Jul-1959
     
  2. I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss. - Jessica Alba, Actress
    28-Apr-1981
     
  3. Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men. - Krista Allen, Actress
    05-Apr-1972
     
  4. I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys. - Krista Allen, Actress
    05-Apr-1972
     
  5. It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men. - John Amery, Politician
    14-Mar-1912 - 19-Dec-1945
     
  6. No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally. - Elena Anaya, Actress
    17-Jul-1975
     
  7. I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls. - Richard Dean Anderson, Actor
    23-Jan-1950
     
  8. There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles. - Mary Antin, Activist
    24-Feb-1909 - 15-May-1949
     
  9. My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. - Thomas Arnold, Educator
    13-Jun-1795 - 12-Jun-1842
     
  10. The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. - Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier
    22-Feb-1857 - 08-Jan-1941
     
  11. To get a hold on boys you must be their friend. - Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier
    22-Feb-1857 - 08-Jan-1941
     
  12. We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance. - Anita Baker, Musician
    26-Jan-1958
     
  13. A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader. - Bernard Baruch, Businessman
    19-Aug-1870 - 20-Jun-1965
     
  14. There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe. - David Beckham, Athlete
    02-May-1975
     
  15. I keep fit by running after my three boys all day. - Victoria Beckham, Musician
    17-Apr-1974
     
  16. Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. - Thomas Beecham, Composer
    29-Apr-1879 - 08-Mar-1961
     
  17. I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys. - Catherine Bell, Model
    14-Aug-1968
     
  18. I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - A. C. Benson, Author
    24-Apr-1862 - 17-Jun-1925
     
  19. I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment. - Candice Bergen, Actress
    09-May-1946
     
  20. The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. - Buffalo Bill, Celebrity
    26-Feb-1846 - 10-Jan-1917
     
  21. Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats. - Brad Bird, Cartoonist
    11-Sep-1957
     
  22. Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. - Jane Birkin, Actress
    14-Dec-1946
     
  23. The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes. - James W. Black, Scientist
    14-Jul-1924
     
  24. For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks. - Alexis Bledel, Actress
    16-Sep-1981
     
  25. Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts. - Lisa Bonet, Actress
    16-Nov-1967
     
  26. The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster. - Georg Brandes, Critic
    04-Feb-1842 - 19-Feb-1927
     
  27. For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. - Wernher von Braun, Scientist
    23-Mar-1912 - 16-Jun-1977
     
  28. The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one! - Beau Bridges, Actor
    09-Dec-1941
     
  29. Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. - Dave Bristol, Celebrity
    23-Jun-1933
     
  30. Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer! - Garth Brooks, Musician
    07-Feb-1962
     
  31. We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys. - Bryan Brown, Actor
    23-Jun-1947
     
  32. Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls. - Louise Brown, Celebrity
    25-Jul-1978
     
  33. I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. - Sandra Bullock, Actress
    26-Jul-1964
     
  34. I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing. - John Burns, Activist
    20-Oct-1858 - 24-Jan-1943
     
  35. If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys. - Geezer Butler, Musician
    17-Jul-1949
     
  36. Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up. - Malcolm Campbell, Celebrity
    11-Mar-1885 - 31-Dec-1948
     
  37. If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary. - Dennis Chavez, Politician
    08-Apr-1888 - 18-Nov-1962
     
  38. Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. - Lynne Cheney, Celebrity
    14-Aug-1941
     
  39. Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. - Ron Chernow, Author
     
  40. I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. - Beverly Cleary, Author
    12-Apr-1916
     
  41. Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em! - Patsy Cline, Musician
    08-Sep-1932 - 05-Mar-1963
     
  42. Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so. - James S. Coleman, Sociologist
    12-May-1926
     
  43. In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student. - James S. Coleman, Sociologist
    12-May-1926
     
  44. When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means. - Carlo Collodi, Writer
    24-Nov-1826 - 26-Oct-1890
     
  45. When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls. - Art Cooper
     
  46. The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven. - Norris Cotton, Politician
    11-May-1900 - 24-Feb-1989
     
  47. Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. - Robert Crumb, Artist
    30-Aug-1943
     
  48. When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director. - Kieran Culkin, Actor
    30-Sep-1982
     
  49. 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 - Miley Cyrus, Musician
    23-Nov-1992
     
  50. When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green. - Roald Dahl, Novelist
    13-Sep-1916 - 25-Nov-1990
     
  51. All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. - Roald Dahl, Novelist
    13-Sep-1916 - 25-Nov-1990
     
  52. I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know. - Claire Danes, Actress
    12-Apr-1979
     
  53. I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. - Bette Davis, Actress
    05-Apr-1908 - 06-Oct-1989
     
  54. It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do. - Geena Davis, Actress
    21-Jan-1956
     
  55. I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat. - Mac Davis, Musician
    21-Jan-1942
     
  56. I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought. - Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist
    12-Dec-1919 - 19-Dec-2001
     
  57. I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson. - Dustin Diamond, Actor
    07-Jan-1977
     
  58. I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. - Princess Diana, Royalty
    01-Jul-1961 - 31-Aug-1997
     
  59. I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putt - Cameron Diaz, Actress
    30-Aug-1972
     
  60. I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman. - Cameron Diaz, Actress
    30-Aug-1972
     
  61. OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal. - John Dillinger, Criminal
    22-Jun-1903 - 22-Jul-1934
     
  62. The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys. - Thomas Dolby, Musician
    14-Oct-1958
     
  63. I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it. - Robert Downey, Jr., Actor
    04-Apr-1965
     
  64. The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment. - Julia Louis Dreyfus, Actress
    13-Jan-1961
     
  65. Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do. - Katherine Dunn, Novelist
     
  66. Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you. - Kirsten Dunst, Actress
    30-Apr-1982
     
  67. For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football. - Eliza Dushku, Actress
    30-Dec-1980
     
  68. I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it. - Zac Efron, Actor
    18-Oct-1987
     
  69. The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls. - Black Elk, Leader
     
  70. Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. - William Empson, Poet
    27-Sep-1906 - 15-Apr-1984
     
  71. When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them. - Jeffrey Eugenides, Novelist
    13-Apr-1960
     
  72. One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive. - Warren Farrell, Writer
    26-Jun-1943
     
  73. I go to bed with men, not boys. - Linda Fiorentino, Actress
    09-Mar-1960
     
  74. I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology. - Joely Fisher, Actress
    29-Oct-1967
     
  75. The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods. - John Foster, Architect
     
  76. I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things. - Megan Fox, Actress
    16-May-1986
     
  77. Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. - Anne Frank, Writer
    12-Jun-1929
     
  78. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. - Bruce Jay Friedman, Novelist
    26-Apr-1930
     
  79. When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it. - Daisy Fuentes, Actress
    17-Nov-1966
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