“In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.” WantBookCertainNamesBornPoorCitiesBoysCenturyAncientLondonAutumnQuartersWant HimAutumn DaysPoor FamilyCity Of London Book:The Prince and the Pauper Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.” SchoolSportsBoysSouthLondon Author:Lennie James
“I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.” LittlesBoysMiddleHappeningsEdgesLondonLittle Boys Author:Simon Pegg
“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.” WritingWellsArtPlayChanceBoysMorningGoes OnOfficeLondonProducersThese DaysSecretaryRubbishMy Boys Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.” IfsMenGivingChildrenStillsCountryCharacterRunningAgeSchoolAsksWaterBoysFiveStreetsFieldsHe ManHundredFairsGreenLondonCharmHolidayFifteenPresumptionRunning WaterGreen Fields Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.” Has BeensWholeSchoolBoysUniversityLondonWhole LifeSundayGrammarCambridgeGrammar SchoolCambridge University Author:Robert Lacey
“The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men and women, boys and girls, in the sex industry. That is the most horrific, horrific thing that's happening and it's happening in all of our towns here in Los Angeles, in New York, in London, in Paris, all over the world, and I think that's really what has to be addressed.” ThinkingMenWorldGirlSexBoysNew YorkIndustryHorrorHappeningsMen And WomenTownsLondonParisLos AngelesOur WorldDisgustingBoy And GirlHorrificEnslavementTraffickingOur Town Author:Taylor Hackford
“A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.” SongClassBoysMiddleAdventureMaterialsMeetingsWideLondonQueensMiddle ClassDragDrag QueenTransvestites Author:Marc Almond
“[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.” WorldKindCultureGrowsPerfectCitiesBoysGrowing UpDiversityTownsLondonWeekendSaturdayCities In The World Author:Douglas Booth