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Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. -- Stanley Crouch
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie. -- Bill Nye
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. -- Peter Agre
I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts. -- Carl Barks
I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code. -- Tommy Lasorda
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges. -- Max Lucado
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. -- Newt Gingrich
I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts. -- Henry Rollins
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA. -- Kevin Garnett
We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. -- Daniel Carter Beard
What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership. -- Michael Herr
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. -- Blake Clark
I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike. -- Suzy Parker
Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it's really going to hold them back if they don't. -- Bear Grylls
"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization. -- Frederick Reines
In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case. -- Paul Weyrich
I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it. -- Giancarlo Esposito
All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp. -- Johnny Weissmuller
Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God. -- Don Rickles
If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. -- Melvin Maddocks
...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared. -- Christopher Golden
The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop. -- Dennis Miller
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. -- Tahir Shah
The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives. -- Teller
We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end. -- Tom Petty
About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing. -- Douglas Rushkoff
As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got. -- Rob Corddry
I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not... I'm not... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid! -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
When I was in Boy Scouts, back in the day, we'd tell stories around the campfire. That's why I love movies. It's literally you and your friends, telling stories around a campfire, whatever they may be. -- Jon M. Chu
I've never stayed in a tent or a caravan in my life, and I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't see the point of going on holiday to enjoy less comfort than I have at home. -- Terry Wogan
Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher. -- Daniel J. Evans
Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world. -- Christopher Bram
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that? -- Roy H. Williams
I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them. -- Ted Stevens
I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life. -- Robert Baden-Powell
The wilderness is gone, the buckskin man is gone, the painted Indian has hit the trail over the Great Divide, the hardships and privations of pioneer life which did so much to develop sterling manhood are now but a legend in history, and we must depend upon the Boy Scout movement to produce the MEN of the future. -- Daniel Carter Beard
The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally. -- Bill Bradley
You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout. -- Allen West
It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy. -- John Green
I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious. -- Colleen Hoover

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