Quotes about Boy

Pastor, Author

But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

Blessing - Boy - Children - Enlightenment - Girl - Glory - Heathen - Holiness - Making - Nations - Value - Whole - Yielding

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

Boy - Halloween

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

Boy - Facts - Man

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William Faulkner

Writer

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

Boy - Children - Crowd - Man

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Adolf Hitler

Former Chancellor of Germany

I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.

Boy - Burden - Instinct - Man - Nations - Past - World

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Ambrose Bierce

Writer, Journalist, Soldier

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men - were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.

Boy - Christianity - Humane - Imperfection - Man

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

Book - Boy - Smell

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

Boy - Farming - India

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Homer

Poet

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.

Book - Boy - Deal - Education - Entertainment

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Harry S. Truman

33rd U.S. President

At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But there are many others who are away from their homes and their loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of us, at home, at war, wherever we may be, are within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray. We should all pray.

Boy - Celebration - Home - Korea - Man - Praying - President - War

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Ernest Hemingway

Journalist, Novelist

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

Boy - Man - Sleeping

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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.

Actions - Behavior - Boy - Man - Speaking

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Essayist, Publisher, Playwright, Critic

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

Boy - Man

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Ernest Hemingway

Journalist, Novelist

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

Boy - Discouragement - Fall - Feelings

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J. D. Salinger

Writer

But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

Boy - Contempt - Heroism - Man - Talk - Warmth

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.

Boy - Burden - Complain - Dawn - Gratefulness - Preparedness - Purpose - Remembering - Warmth

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

Accomplishment - Boy - Enthusiasm - Linguistics - Purpose - Trial - World

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Horace Mann

Lawyer, Educator, Education Reformer

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.

Ability - Boy - Game - Playing - Proof

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