Alan Cumming Quotes, Boys Quotes, Should Have Quotes

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

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Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Boys Quotes , Desire Quotes

He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Boys Quotes , Goal Quotes

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Boys Quotes , Two Quotes

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , War Quotes , Boys Quotes

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , School Quotes , Boys Quotes

I've always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.

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Tags : Adam Richman Quotes , Boys Quotes , Style Quotes

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

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Tags : Ajay Naidu Quotes , Boys Quotes , Games Quotes

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

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Tags : Adriana Trigiani Quotes , Boys Quotes , Use Quotes

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Boys Quotes

The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life Quotes , Boys Quotes

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.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Fun Quotes , Boys Quotes

Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Flower Quotes , Boys Quotes

They don't want to see rap music. They don't want to see the Beastie Boys. They don't care what we're doing. They want one thing and one thing only: that's to see Madonna come on stage.

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Tags : Ad-Rock Quotes , Rap Quotes , Boys Quotes

Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Fall Quotes , Boys Quotes

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Boys Quotes , Men Quotes

Don't think about what you've left behind. If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Animal Quotes , Boys Quotes

I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Boys Quotes , Waiting Quotes

FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said p/ "That definition's just."/ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ "Force is not might but must!"

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Boys Quotes