Homeboy Quotes

#1. Looking forward to never meeting again,
Jessamin Olea

Kiersten White

#2. When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English.

Keyshawn Johnson

#3. I glance at the red-stenciled words crossing my chest - HOLDEN CAULFIELD IS MY HOMEBOY.

Lia Riley

#4. My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.

Anna Quindlen

#5. Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

Greg Boyle

#7. My heart's never smiled so hard Baby. Lovin' you is fun.

Easton Corbin

#8. We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

Alain Robert

#9. God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.

Queen Latifah

#10. (Nothing is) really as good as a meal made 'from scratch' or a picture created with your own hands.

Mitsumasa Anno

#11. Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

Greg Boyle

#12. Was he that diabolical?

Karen Marie Moning

#13. My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood
like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

David Lynch

#14. Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.

Nigel Godrich

#15. Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming.

Greg Boyle

#16. If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.

Craig Stone

#17. The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

Whitley Strieber

#18. Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

Rainn Wilson

#19. Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.

Greg Boyle

#20. I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

Tea Leoni

#21. Or we can settle in and watch every single episode of Sherlock." "Now you're talking." Benedict Cumberbatch is my homeboy.

Autumn Doughton

#22. You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Charles Barkley

#23. But that wasn't how I rolled. Prolonged irrationality wasn't in my wheelhouse. Recrimination was not my homeboy.

Penny Reid