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“I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Heart Stills Brain Boys Summer First Time Albums Endless Beach This Day Bypass Beach Boys

Author:John Stamos

“I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!”

Firsts I Can Character Remember Games Can Do Lines Boys Four Type Toys Really Great Tigers I Can Do It Jake Trivia Toby

Author:Charlotte Arnold

“I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.”

Firsts Littles Able Felt Boys Watches Records Heard Tables My Favorite Boxes Things To Do Little Boys Favorites Things

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.”

Feels Firsts Sometimes Age Wish Boys

Author:S. E. Hinton

“March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.”

Knows Trying Firsts Persons Joy Boys Months Becoming Spring Expectations March Betray Springtime Pompous Firmness Prognostication

Book:The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime

Source: The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime

“The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.”

Firsts Boys Careers Essentials Capable Enjoyment Relish

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.”

Firsts Young Boys Journey Return Please Voyages Sailor Lad Navigation Please Me

Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

“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

“Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America