Best boys & middle Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.”

Source: The Age of Miracles

“It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.”

Men Trying Believe White Views Boys Middle Sitting Adults Concerned Clouds Refuse Point Of View Gentleman Old Man Believe In God Beard Middle Aged

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.”

“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.”

“As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.”

World Children Faces Used Animal Wonder Class Boys Watches Fantasy Middle Adventure Clouds Giants Middle Class Dragons Castles Mundane Middle Class Life

Author:Barry B. Longyear

“In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day.”

“We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.”

Stills Girl Names Half Boys Comedy Wife Middle My Wife Pushing Relieved Contracting

Author:Paul Reiser

“It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.”

World Wells Said Stills Book Age Remember Spiritual Belief Pleasure Boys Forever Taken Middle Century Proud Winter Clock Compliment Far Away Middle Ages Austria Slurs

Book:The Mysterious Stranger

Source: The Mysterious Stranger

“as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.”

Knows Men Sometimes Differences Boys Middle Essentials Elderly Exterior Middle Aged

Book:Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

“I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.”

Ifs Way Said Book Ends Done Stories Shows Would Be Boys Middle Scripts Clever One Way Supposed To Be Involving Beginning Middle And End Jigsaw

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.”

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Author:Eric Idle

“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.”

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Author:Simon Pegg

“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”

“Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever--whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.”

Ends Age Order Boys Cases Middle Trade Soldier Entering Middle Ages Merchants Initiation Workmen Administrators Courtiers Plies

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just have to choose between being proletarian or middle-class. Those kinds of things do not exist anymore. Today working class boys can play football and become multimillionaires. On football! There are no longer classes, who say that we are poor, we are suppressed by you etc.”

Want Kind Play Today Poor Talking Class Boys Middle Football Complaining Etc Middle Class Working Class About Success

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.”

Age Memories Boys Middle Aging Middle Ages My Boys No Memory

Author:John Towner Williams

“I guess my voice kind of changed in middle school. It was what it is now. I remember there was this boy who used to walk behind me and sing that song that goes, "Walk like a man, talk like a man" and I was devastated. So I learned that I can pick up my voice if I want to.”

Ifs Men Want Kind I Can School Remember Used Song Voice Walks Behinds Boys Middle Changed Picks Devastated Middle School

Author:Dianna Agron

“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”

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Author:Kin Hubbard

“Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.”

Children School Force Class Boys Middle Middle Class Knives Gang Ghetto Middle Class Family Fatherless

Book:Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

“It's cute when you meet young boys and they're bright red and breathing like they've run up the stairs, but they're just sitting outside the door. I've had phone calls in the middle of the night when I stay at hotels.”

Running Young Night Boys Doors Middle Sitting Red Phones Breathing Cute Hotel Stairs Phone Calls Middle Of The Night

Author:Cameron Diaz

“Like if you're Jewish you have to wear a hat, but only in the middle of your head. But it all becomes clear the second that you realize that God is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's.”

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Author:Eugene Mirman

“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.”

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Author:Marc Almond

“I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out.”

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Author:Moshe Kasher

“When I hit Hollywood, it was full-blown. I was a party boy. It amazes me that I made it ... to be able to have led this amazing career when I was out every night. Every once in a while I'll see old reruns of myself and I see I'm giving it my comedy best, but with dead eyes - no sparkle. I was in the middle of all that abuse. But now I'm a recovering alcoholic with many years of sobriety.”

Giving Years Made Eye Able Night Party Boys Careers Comedy Middle Hollywood Abuse Made It Every Night Alcoholics Sobriety Sparkle Recovering Reruns Recovering Alcoholics

Author:Leslie Jordan

“Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.”

Body Kids Girl Names Parent Boys Middle Baby Knees Void Buttons Belly Puberty Baby Boy Belly Buttons

Author:Peggy Orenstein

“I've only been a mom for not even two years yet, so I haven't had much of a chance. But boy do I wish I could have lunch with my girlfriends in the middle of the afternoon. I don't remember the last time I had lunch in the afternoon with my girlfriends.”

Years Two Lasts Remember Wish Chance Boys Middle Havens Mom Girlfriend Two Years Lunch Afternoon Last Time My Girlfriend

Author:Mila Kunis

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