Boys Quotes - Page 83

It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.

I would spar with the boys at school. This guy I had a crush on, we called him Spitfire -- I gave him a bloody nose and lip, so needless to say the romance did not work out!

When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.

I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delightful than to be told, 'You don't have to learn, my boy. There's nothing in it. Modern art? There's nothing in it.

But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles

The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around him by his high-and-mightiness and his atrocious temper. As a boy he terrorized his entire family by his tantrums, when, if thwarted, he would throw himself on the floor and yell till he went blue in the face. It has been much the same ever since. Everyone's terrified of his rages. He has only to start grinding his teeth, and people fall flat before him.

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.