These little boys quotes will inspire you. Little boy, a male child, especially one younger than ten years of age.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging little boys quotes, little boys sayings, and little boys proverbs.
Best Little Boys Quotes
- “I am a little boy but I am going to do something really big in times to come.” ~ Junaid Jamshed
- “A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.” ~ James M. Barrie
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“Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.” ~ Cyril Connolly
- “There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.” ~ Mark Twain , Little boys quotes life
- “Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now” ~ Alison McGhee
- “Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.” ~ Marc Brown
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“Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.” ~ Cormac McCarthy
- “When I grow up I want to be a little boy.” ~ Joseph Heller
- “Little boys have amazing minds.” ~ Ferdinand Marcos
- “Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.” ~ Plato
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“Only little boys and old men sneer at love.” ~ Louis Auchincloss
- “Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing – that’s what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.” ~ Helen Rowland
- “The way to be a man if you’re a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.” ~ Patricia Ireland
- “I was once that little boy
Terrified of the world, now I’m on a world tour” ~ Lupe Fiasco -
“Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.” ~ James Thurber
- “Boy’s natural play is rough and tumble play, it’s the universal play of little boys. And it’s very different from aggression. And we are a society that’s failing to understand the distinction.” ~ Christina Hoff Sommers
- “When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.” ~ William Levy
- “Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.” ~ Diane de Poitiers
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“A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “I experimented with drugs and I experimented with everything that little boys do – vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, breaking and entering schools and destroying a room. But I finally got to a point where I looked around and said, “This is not getting me anywhere. I’m stagnating with these guys.” They were getting drunk and high every weekend. I got out.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “You can’t see the water until you run into it. A little boy took off running through it. He got all muddy.” ~ Shannon O’Brien
- “The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.” ~ Eric Berne
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“Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.” ~ James Thurber
- “‘Ever seen a leaf – a leaf from a tree?’ ‘Yes.’ I saw one recently – a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining …’ ‘What’s this – an allegory?’ “No; why? Not an allegory – a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything’s good.'” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.” ~ Nancy Friday
- “These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
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“If you spend any time with a man, you’ll realize that we’re all still little boys.” ~ Paul Walker
- “I am looking for friends. What does that mean – tame?” “It is an act too often neglected,” said the fox. “It means to establish ties.” “To establish ties?” “Just that,” said the fox. “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “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..”” ~ Hafez - “As children, women are encouraged to be “little ladies.” Little ladies don’t scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are chastised more severely for throwing tantrums or showing temper: “high spirits” are expected and therefore tolerated in little boys; docility and resignation are the corresponding traits expected of little girls. Now, we tend to excuse a show of temper by a man where we would not excuse an identical tirade from a woman: women are allowed to fuss and complain, but only a man can bellow in rage.” ~ Robin Lakoff
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“I will say the most raw joy I’ve experienced reading has probably come from the times I’ve been reading with my little boys.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss
- “I’ve known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.” ~ Cokie Roberts
- “And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.” ~ Harry Chapin - “A little boy who’s discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it’s screwing Mommy.” ~ Laurell K. Hamilton , Little boys quotes from mom
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“Little Boy’s performance is authentic, natural, moving & inspiring.” ~ Eva Longoria
- “When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, ‘O, it is only a little one.’ Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “My mother told me I said to her, at age three, ‘I’m going to go to Italy and get my father in a tractor.’ ‘You’ve never seen quite so fierce a little boy as you were,’ she told me. She tried to explain that I couldn’t get my father in a tractor. Apparently I looked at her and narrowed my eyes and said, ‘In that case, I’m going in a double-decker bus,’ and stomped off. Which is kind of funny, but it’s very sad, as well.” ~ Roger Waters
- “I still feel like a little boy on the set, watching the movie magic being made.” ~ Lucas Grabeel
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“A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. ‘By getting up every time I fell down,’ he answered.” ~ David Seabury
- “The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. “What you doin’ young man?” “I’m paintin’ flowers” he said She said… “It’s not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There’s a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You’ve got to show concern for everyone else For you’re not the only one.” ~ Harry Chapin
- “The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930’s. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.” ~ Thomas Pynchon
- “I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.” ~ Harland Williams
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“I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.” ~ Jimmy Carter
- “Why did the little girls grow crippled While the little boys grow strong The boys allowed to come of age The girls just came along The girls were told sing harmonies The boys could all sing songs That’s why little girls grew crippled While little boys grew strong.” ~ Harry Chapin
- “Anyone who has read Yeats’s wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy’s misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: “When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.” ~ Randall Jarrell
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“My little boy loves mambo, and my daughter, besides Justin Bieber, likes bachata – in our house, we’re always singing.” ~ Thalia
- “My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother’s family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.” ~ William Levy
- “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.” ~ Narada Michael Walden
- “I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me.” ~ Paul Walker
- “I think it’s interesting that there’s always a dark cloud hanging over my character, in every movie. Even in Fat Man and Little Boy, where it’s a real dark cloud. In Mask, it’s more the judgment of others, but it’s still a threat.” ~ Laura Dern
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“If you say children wouldn’t know anything about masturbation on their own, you’ve never changed a little boy’s diaper.” ~ Joycelyn Elders
- “In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.” ~ Myriam Miedzian
- “The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.” ~ John Travolta
- “Formerly when the Govardhanagiri (mountain) was raised aloft by a little boy, the gopis and gopalas realised that Krishna was the Lord. Now, it is not one Govardhanagiri, a whole range will be lifted, you will see!” ~ Sathya Sai Baba
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“From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.” ~ Donald Kagan
- “When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back ’til he won. I honestly feel that’s how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.” ~ James Frey
- “Asher means ‘happy and blessed’ which embodies my eldest. Caleb means ‘stubborn and tenacious dog’ and I can’t even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.” ~ David Oyelowo
- “Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don’t remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.” ~ Elliott Carter
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“I’ve been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.” ~ Robert Vaughn
- “Unity is a beast in itself. If a wolf sees two little boys playing in the woods on one side, and a big strong man on the other, he will go to the one who stands alone.” ~ Suzy Kassem
- “I’m like a little boy from Virginia. I’m a backpacker. In my head, I’m left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.” ~ Pharrell Williams
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“I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.” ~ John Galliano
- “I don’t feel sorry for myself, because I’m living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on ‘Opportunity Knocks.'” ~ John Barrowman
- “Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!” ~ Elisabeth Elliot
