Quotes about Boys
by Futurescopes Research Team
- My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them. - Victoria Abril, Actress
04-Jul-1959
- I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss. - Jessica Alba, Actress
28-Apr-1981
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. - Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier
22-Feb-1857 - 08-Jan-1941
- To get a hold on boys you must be their friend. - Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier
22-Feb-1857 - 08-Jan-1941
- 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
- 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
- There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe. - David Beckham, Athlete
02-May-1975
- I keep fit by running after my three boys all day. - Victoria Beckham, Musician
17-Apr-1974
- Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. - Thomas Beecham, Composer
29-Apr-1879 - 08-Mar-1961
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. - Buffalo Bill, Celebrity
26-Feb-1846 - 10-Jan-1917
- 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
- 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
- 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
- For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks. - Alexis Bledel, Actress
16-Sep-1981
- 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
- The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster. - Georg Brandes, Critic
04-Feb-1842 - 19-Feb-1927
- 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
- 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
- Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. - Dave Bristol, Celebrity
23-Jun-1933
- 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
- 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
- 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
- I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. - Sandra Bullock, Actress
26-Jul-1964
- I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing. - John Burns, Activist
20-Oct-1858 - 24-Jan-1943
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means. - Carlo Collodi, Writer
24-Nov-1826 - 26-Oct-1890
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson. - Dustin Diamond, Actor
07-Jan-1977
- 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
- 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
- I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman. - Cameron Diaz, Actress
30-Aug-1972
- OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal. - John Dillinger, Criminal
22-Jun-1903 - 22-Jul-1934
- The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys. - Thomas Dolby, Musician
14-Oct-1958
- 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
- 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
- Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do. - Katherine Dunn, Novelist
- 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
- 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
- I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it. - Zac Efron, Actor
18-Oct-1987
- 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
- Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. - William Empson, Poet
27-Sep-1906 - 15-Apr-1984
- 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
- 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
- I go to bed with men, not boys. - Linda Fiorentino, Actress
09-Mar-1960
- I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology. - Joely Fisher, Actress
29-Oct-1967
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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