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“I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.”

Years Firsts Doe Said Might Kids Lasts Hurt Boys Wife Heard Week Lessons Six First Time Forgotten Albums Hotel Copies Signing Invaluable Argentina Old Music Henry Viii Buenos Aires Henry V

Author:Rick Wakeman

“Look at me - I was the boo boy for years and years. Did I ever think I would end up in Hollywood or the FA Cup final? No, I didn't.”

Thinking Years Looks Ends Boys Hollywood Finals Cups Look At Me Cup Finals

Author:Vinnie Jones

“Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."”

Years Said Waiting Half Boys Six Six Year Olds

Author:Fay Wray

“Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.”

Should Years Mind Boys Baseball Eight

Author:Aidan Quinn

“I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.”

Years Made Born Boys Airplane Historic Dinosaurs

Author:Jim Lovell

“Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way!”

Knows Way Want Years Eye Girl Stars Space Animal Boys Design Ocean Engineers Astronaut Animal Love Boy And Girl Zoologist

Author:Sally Ride

“You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.”

Knows Want Years Littles Said Two Boys Growing Up Growing Wonderful Magazines Wiser Wonderful Things Nests Pennies Brooklyn Tick Hawks

Author:Buddy Hackett

“If you're gay, you're gay. It's my Dennis Miller theory of homosexuality shot through the movie "Boy and the Dolphin." If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching the movie "Boy and a Dolphin" and a 27-year-old Sofia Loren crawls up out of the Aegean Sea after sponge diving, she's standing there in the deck of the boat in a see-through gauze top, rivulets of water dripping off her torso onto the deck of the boat. If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching that and you still want to make it with the captain of the boat, you're gay. You can't fight that. So it is what it is.”

Ifs Want Years Stills Fighting Water Boys Sea Theory Gay Shots Standing Boat Captains Homosexuality Deck Diving Dolphins Sponges Standing There It Is What It Is Dripping Torso

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, “Nothing, I just helped him cry.²” “Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth “You owe me” Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky..””

“The bigtime for you is just around the corner. They told me that first in 1952 - boy, its been a long corner. If I dont hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, Im gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.”

Ifs Years Firsts Long Next Boys Corners Packs Music Business Around The Corner Gigolo

Author:Ronnie Hawkins

“I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy play a jerk kid? I'm 27 years old. I've been divorced once and separated from my second wife. I have two boys of my own. I spent almost two years in the army. It's time Judge Hardy went out and bought me a double-breasted suit.”

Years Long Two Play Kids Guy My Own Boys Wife Judging Army Suits Two Years Feds Divorced Jerk Fed Up Hardy Insipid

Author:Mickey Rooney

“I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.”

Years Two School Lasts Girl Boys Two Years

Author:Chris Lilley

“I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great, I mean I didn't know either, y'know, that these little boys, y'know, I was very impressed. I think they'll probably be around in 20 years writing good songs, and being a great band.”

Thinking Knows Writing Years Mean Littles Song Boys Band Performances Ass Kicks Impressed Drummer Little Boys Kick Ass

Author:Stevie Nicks

“When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.”

Writing Years Firsts Long Said Book Dream Realizing Boys Metaphor Far Away Pilgrimage

Author:Paulo Coelho

“My mom missed meals on several occasions because there was only enough food to feed all of us. My mom didn't have a bed until I was 15 years old. She slept on a couch... I remember laying with her, like I used to sleep with my mom until I was like 12. I was a big baby; I'm a momma's boy. But my mom is my best friend, and never let me down, ever.”

Years Enough Bigs Remember Used Sleep Boys Baby Mom Bed Let Me My Mom Occasions Meals My Best Friend Couches Momma Let Me Down

Author:Kid Cudi

“[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.”

Men Years Stills Hands Three Boys Impossible Letters Mark Fellows Rough Three Years Awkward Deck Likeable Three Year Olds

Book:The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

“Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.”

Years Children Has Beens School Boys Months Promise University Controlled Bob Considering Raising Children Harvard Eldest Harvard University

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.”

Men Years Play Body Wanted Guy Games Memories Simple Boys Concern Friendly Prime Dozen Competitors Playing Games Centering Body Change

Author:Frank Pittman

“I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'”

Thinking Want Years Bigs Actors Cities Boys Fantasy New York Scene Ten Gun New York City Cop Robbers Cops And Robbers

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay.”

Years Different Play Character Realizing Numbers Boys Gay Mouths Series Diaries Entry Thirteen Different Characters Word Of Mouth Thirteen Year Olds Diary Entries

Author:James Lecesne

“Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.”

Years Children Boys Four Risk Died Four Years Mistaken Franklin Smallpox

Author:Michael Specter

“I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.”

Way Trying Years Kind School Spiritual Suffering Religious Boys Achieve High School Catholic Raised Latter Catholicism Embedded Martyrdom Penance Private School

Author:James Balog

“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.”

“Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.”

Way Years Hands Interesting Boys Design Paper Paint Come Up Wraps My Boys Interesting Ways

Author:Kelly Wearstler

“I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.”

“My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.”

Ifs Feels Trying Years Kind Kids Interesting Boys Concepts Agree Seven Seven Years Repetitive Learning To Read

Author:Ana Tijoux

“We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.”

Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body. When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years.”

Giving Years Kind Littles Stills Body Bigs Boys Dad Jokes My Dad Coaches Gymnastics Little Boys Through The Years Quads

Author:Ali Krieger

“What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.”

Years Kind Certain Parent Boys Teacher Violence Worst Aggression Masculinity Torment Eleven Mischief Thirteen Passivity Proclamation Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.”

Years Has Beens Character Film Boys Industry Including Spots Film Industry

Author:Om Puri

“Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a little rain What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain The gentle rain that falls for years And the grass is gone and the boy disappears And the rain keeps falling like helpless tears And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky The leaves nod their heads as the breeze blows by Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye And what have they done to the rain?”

“You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed off the cave. It's a completely preserved time capsule. You've got tracks of cave bears that look like they were left yesterday, and you've got the footprint of a boy who was probably eight years old next to the footprint of a wolf.”

Years Looks Faces Next Left Realizing Boys Rocks Events Bears Years Ago Track Eight Yesterday Caves Footprint Time Capsules

Author:Werner Herzog

“Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy any more. It's no fun putting on ten years and fifty pounds all of a sudden. Other times, I get up and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm not a weary innkeeper, hopeless, with bones that feel like they're made of lead. I really sink into the characters that I write.”

Feels Writing Years Made Sometimes Character Body Young Fun Boys Ten Bones Hungry Get Up Fifty Pounds Hopeless Weary

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it.”

Years Wells Said Mother Father Waiting Boys Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Champion Accolades

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"”

Years Ideas Humor Funny Hours Simple Boys Air Comfortable Yeah Twelve Conditioning Air Conditioning Sweatshops

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.”

Years Remember Values Boys Growing Up Growing Discipline Our Family Farms Through The Years

Author:Billy Graham

“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.”

Years Said Facts Mother Girl Boys Involved Trauma Rhythm Shirts Wrestling Twelve T Shirt My Boys

Author:Patti Smith

“A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a caesarean section though, you'd think at 66 she would have needed some masking tape down there just to stop it falling out.”

Thinking Giving Years Humor Funny Fall Boys Baby Birth Needed Britain Tape Mum Amazed Sections Old Woman Giving Birth Baby Boy

Author:Frankie Boyle

“My son is 12 now, and is really getting into girls. A lot. But the thing about twelve year old boys is that they don't possess what I like to call that ... discretionary gene yet. We were walking home from the ballfield the other day and there was a woman walking towards us who was ... gifted. I saw them, and I saw him see them. But she was too close for me to go, "Dude, shut up." She hadn't walked two feet behind us and he goes "God dang, did you see the SIZE of those things?" And all I could say was "Yeah, I did!"”

Years Two Home Humor Funny Girl Behinds Boys Saws Feet Son Walking Yeah Size My Son Genes Twelve Shut Up Gifted Walking Home

Author:Bill Engvall

“As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It's a bit like young girls and horses.”

Years Young Girl Bits Boys Like You Horse Convinced Obsessed Egypt Uncommon

Author:Bill Henson

“Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?”

Years Happiness Boys

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“I make no apologies for Popeye. Behind M*A*S*H, it's my biggest hit. It got maligned by the critics because it wasn't Superman. It wasn't about special effects and it wasn't made for 14-year-old boys. The majority of films are made for 14-year-old boys; I don't know where they get the eight bucks to get in. It's hush money from the parents.”

Knows Years Made Film Parent Behinds Boys Special Effects Majority Critics Eight Apology Bucks Hush Special Effects Popeye

Author:Robert Altman

“I'm a 20 year old white boy residing on the Eastside of Cleveland, OH, and I am loud and obnoxious troubled youth that spends weeknights pissing parents off by turning their daughter's room into a giant orgy-fest.”

Years Parent White Rooms Boys Youth Daughter Loud Giants Obnoxious Cleveland

Author:Machine Gun Kelly

“I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.”

Years Made Boys

Author:Robert Altman

“I don't think it's very difficult to bring a virginal, angst-ridden, hip-hop grunting white boy to the screen. Not that I have any experience with that. I don't know man. I understood where his head was at, because he was this 18-year-old cat that thought he was a man, but didn't really know what it meant to be a man.”

Thinking Knows Men Years Difficult White Boys Understood Cat Hip Hop Screens Hips Hops Meant To Be Be A Man Angst

Author:Josh Peck

“I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played Claudius, who's supposed to be a 60-year-old man, and I was like 18. It's inherently ridiculous seeing 18-year-old boys with gray beards. That's always funny.”

Thinking Men Years Kids School Boys Seeing Ridiculous Supposed To Be Old Man Gray Beard

Author:Steve Coogan

“Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.”

Years Character Remember Boys New York Years Ago Fishes Hotel Dedicated Remember When Motorcycle Rumble Mayflower

Author:Mickey Rourke

“When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.”

“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him. The review, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.”

Thinking Writing Years Mind Littles Book Speak Boys New York Findings Aim Library East Spots Reviews Vague Shelves Get Over Jackets Kansas Hurdle

Book:Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

Source: Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

“According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.”

Years Firsts Made Evil Process Boys Dog Creation Position Letting Go Female Garden Decided Doctors Rose Males Creator Legends Adam Doctor Who Phantoms Ribs Pretext Ejaculation

Author:William S. Burroughs

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