Top 100 Quotes About My Boy
#1. Age, like wealth is but a mental abstraction, my boy"~ Herr Doktor Pavel
K.W. Jeter
#2. Nothing like a horseless sleigh to spark a conversation. Mark my word, my boy. Horseless will be the way of the future!
Christina Daley
#3. Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.
William W. Johnstone
#5. Where are you taking us?" Nico said.
"You should be honored, my boy. You will have the opportunity to join a great army! Just like that silly game you play with cards and dolls."
"They're not dolls! They're figurines! And you can take your great army and -
Rick Riordan
#7. Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.
Terrell Owens
#8. Allowed?' Uncle Monty repeated. 'Of course not! You are implored to come inside here, my boy.
Lemony Snicket
#9. I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.
Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything.
G.K. Chesterton
#10. In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
Patrick Ness
#11. It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.
James A. Owen
#12. A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk ...
My boy, it's your last resort.
Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.
Sylvia Plath
#13. How far from real the truth is. I wanted then to take every murdering bastard in Northern Ireland, and have them sleep for a night in my boy's blue rowboat, out on the lough, in the dark, among the reeds, turning in primal celtic patterns.
Colum McCann
#14. Well, it certainly is nice to be free from the threat of that lamp, my boy." Chains drew a last breath of smoke, then rubbed his dwindling sheaf of tobacco out against the roof stones. "Was it informing for the duke? Plotting to murder us?
Scott Lynch
#16. Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
Patrick Rothfuss
#17. Pray, what's the nature of his trouble?" Prudence asked solicitously.
"Oh, cursed bad news, my boy. That old aunt of his from whom he has expectations has rallied, and they say she'll last another ten years. Poor old Devereux, y'know! Must try and raise his spirits.
Georgette Heyer
#18. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind.
John Gardner
#19. This found its classic expression in Homer's Iliad, in which Glaucus says to Diomedes that he still hears his father's urgings ringing in his ears: Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head high above the others.
Anthony Everitt
#20. No, Digory. Men like me, who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common pleasures. Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny.
C.S. Lewis
#21. Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!
Winston Churchill
#22. Look here, my boy, if you have average intelligence, about half the things you do are bound to be right, which is a fair achievement for any career. Don't spend sleepless nights over them.
R.P. Noronha
#23. My boy, this is the second time today that wisdom has spoken through your mouth ... !
Umberto Eco
#24. Caleb tossed him an explosive and Japhet lunged to catch it before it hit the ground. He glared but Caleb didn't notice. Instead, he started to whistle I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier as he made his way down the left side of the tracks, laying bombs at intervals.
Jack Lewis Baillot
#25. If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
Coco Chanel
#26. I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
Kathryn Stockett
#27. I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)
Ernest Rutherford
#29. You don't see how he looks at you, but I do. I'm his mom, I can read my boy. I've never seen him happier. You'll see. Even if neither of you know it yet, he's the one!
Charlotte Symonds
#30. Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile ...
Elizabeth Bowen
#31. my boy?
he is even
better than
books.
-fiction has nothing on you.
Amanda Lovelace
#32. Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.
David Gemmell
#33. That's an applicable life less, my boy,' he'd said. 'Nobody is really paying attention to you. Most people don't really get this. They think they must count more to other people than other people count to them. They can't believe the disregard could truly be mutual.
Jennifer DuBois
#34. I'll come some day," he said. "But women, my boy, they're the pivot everything turns upon. Things are in a bad way with me, very bad. And it's all through women. Tell me frankly now," he pursued, picking up a cigar and keeping one hand on his glass; "give me your advice.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.
Virginia Madsen
#36. Promise me you'll be careful, my boy." She handed him the pack she'd assembled.
"Don't worry. The Wolf has no interest in me," he said, smiling through his pain. "I'm all gristle.
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
#37. I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, 'My boy's got learnin'!'
Robin Williams
#38. In fact, I can't think of much I'd like better than for him to step into the room right now, glasses fogged and smelling of damp wool, shaking the rain from his hair like an old dog and saying: 'Dickie, my boy, what you got for a thirsty old man to drink tonight?
Donna Tartt
#39. My boy," returned my father, "you must not judge by the work, but by the work in connection with the surroundings. Could Giotto or Filippo Lippi, think you, have got a picture into the Exhibition? Would
Samuel Butler
#40. Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.
George Eliot
#41. There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.
Edward T. Lowe Jr.
#42. I'll tell you that whatever you feel for anyone, however much love's inside you, there's more of it when you have a child. You can't understand it until you've experienced it. And it doesn't change as they grow into men, into women. It just grows with them. It should be me in there, and not my boy.
J.D. Robb
#43. My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
Magnus Scheving
#44. But down below, Penumbra is shouting, "Lean, my boy! Lean!"
And wow, do I ever want this job.
Robin Sloan
#45. Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.
Patrick Rothfuss
#46. Tenzin said, "More popcorn, my boy."
Giovanni ripped the plastic bag open and held the paper bag. "This is ridiculous. I'm not a kitchen appliance.
Elizabeth Hunter
#47. I'll give you anything. My boy, my soul, take them. Take everything.
Sylvain Reynard
#48. Remember this, my boy. The two greatest men who ever livied-Jesus and Socrates-were both hoboes.
Sam Torode
#49. It may be," replied Coll, smiling, "we know least what we treasure most. But we will have more than enough to keep us busy when you come back, and you will learn, my boy, there is nothing like work to put the heart at rest.
Lloyd Alexander
#50. You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
T.H. White
#52. Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.
George Bernard Shaw
#53. Cauthon lives," Arganda said. "And that's bloody amazing, considering that someone blew up his command post, set fire to his tenet, killed a bunch of his damane, and chased off his wife. Cauthon crawled out of it somehow."
"Ha!" Abell Cauthon said. "That's my boy.
Robert Jordan
#54. I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.
Patti Smith
#55. Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.
Shaquille O'Neal
#56. There, my boy," he said. "It's awfully kind of you, Mr. Windlebird." "My dear boy, don't mention it. If you're satisfied, I'm sure I am." Mr. Windlebird always spoke the truth when he could. He spoke it now.
P.G. Wodehouse
#57. My boy, you are by blood, by appearance, by education, and by tastes a white man. Now, why do you want to throw your life away amidst the poverty and ignorance, in the hopeless struggle, of the black people of the United States?
James Weldon Johnson
#58. Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth.
Jules Verne
#59. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
Ogden Nash
#60. Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do you harm; don't think about an old man who would be dead long since, were it not for his dear habit of coming here every day and finding his old friends on these shelves.
Jules Verne
#61. God pervades every molecule so how can we think that spirituality is something else, and I see with my boy that complete awareness. Light is everywhere, it's in him, it's in everything.
Jai Uttal
#62. Do you think ... ?
'I do sometimes, my boy,'admitted the old man. 'When I can't avoid it.
John Boyne
#63. Some of them are working hard indeed."
"What are they doing?"
"My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious: "They are reading.
Robin Sloan
#64. The shot has gone under my rib, Boulard my boy, so it must have been the shortest one who fired.
Even his final sigh was a police investigation.
Timothee De Fombelle
#65. 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.
Anthony Burgess
#66. He went to America, months ago!
America!
Yes - America.
Is that east or west?
West.
People travel east, my boy - from the east you get wheat and cloth and every other good thing. What ever made our Hammad go west? Didn't anyone offer him directions? Didn't he ask anyone?
Abdul Rahman Munif
#67. Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.
Zora Neale Hurston
#68. He himself will go into the drain and take his boy in his own lap. He will clean his dress, clean his clothes, clean his body; and afterward he will say, "My boy, you should walk carefully."
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
#69. There is something universally chilling about a new plot. And I could see how my boy needed time and space for a story to bloom in his mind, because at any age what comes before sight is a conjuring. A trope, which is just a way to believe.
Chang-rae Lee
#70. I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.
Anne Ursu
#71. 'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'
William Blake
#72. No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it.
Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:
Don't kick against the pricks,
Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your game
And died, there's nothing in it.
Ezra Pound
#73. Do not wait for the tide to take you, my boy. Instead, you take on the tide
Ahmad Ardalan
#74. For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach, and going, "I don't have to audition today. I've got a little respite here."
Robert Knepper
#75. Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.
P.G. Wodehouse
#76. Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now.
Robin Hobb
#77. I hope thou shalt never retreat beneath the ground. The sun is thy inheritance. The sky is thy birthright. Stay here, my boy, and with the conversation of mankind. rejoice in the light.
M T Anderson
#78. Bless you, my boy. Have a horseshoe." "Thank you, sir. What should I do with it?" "Throw it." "Away?" "At that peg there. Then pick it up and throw it at this
Joseph Heller
#80. My boy doesn't want to come out of there baby, he missed his mama.
Jordan Silver
#81. When my boy arrived in this life, on this planet, it was completely a new dimension of experience for me and my wife. I'm still riding on the wave of that experience.
Novak Djokovic
#82. Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.
Belle Boyd
#83. Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.
Charles Dickens
#84. I am incapable of carrying on a discussion to fruitful lengths. I am incapable of the audacity of being logical. I confess to you, my boy, I have not the strength to be right.
Henri Barbusse
#85. Always be careful, my boy, what you make up. Life's more full of things made up on the Spur of the Moment than most people realize. Beware of the Spur of the Moment. It may turn and rend you.
Frank Baker
#86. Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they do so. Straight away
Chris Murray
#87. My boy - we are a tiny race . . . involved in a vast pursuit . . . amidst the cold stars . . . and all bound together by reason and amity.
M T Anderson
#88. My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.
Sigmund Freud
#89. I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.
Tom Glavine
#91. Fetch me the money box and some punkwood, will you, my boy? Gannon asked him, licking the honey from his plate. (I fear table manners in the cabin-indeed, all manners-had suffered since Gannon and his son had been left to themselves.)
William D. Burt
#92. Then you start to see things, Lloydy-my-boy. Things you missed from the gutter. Like how the floor of the Wagon is nothing but straight pine boards, so fresh they're still bleeding sap, and if you took your shoes off you'd be sure to get a splinter.
Stephen King
#93. You know, I'm not even sure how we ended up living together."
"I am," Jake said, turning back to the lake. "Sex. It's a powerful force, my boy, and women use it."
"Is that why you gave them up?" Will asked, sympathetically. "Did paranoia drive you to celibacy?
Jennifer Crusie
#94. If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are.
Cassandra Clare
#95. You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
Seymour Hicks
#96. As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
Ezra Pound
#97. Sir Topher finally looked up. "Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it."
"Then I choose to drown," Finnikin said. "In hope. Rather than float into nothing.
Melina Marchetta
#98. Ty, my boy, here's what you tell them. Say it quietly, and sincerely, and like it's the most important thing anyone ever uttered. Tell them, 'Jesus loves you. But I'm his favorite.
Robin Reardon
#99. We are what we are my boy and wolves is what we are
David Gemmell
#100. Michael!" Oliver's voice came faint through the front door. "Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!"
"Trap," Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael's arm as he walked by. "Don't, man."
"What's he going to do? Make faces at me?
Rachel Caine
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