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Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance. -- Al Spalding
Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker. -- Albert Goodwill Spalding
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. -- William Wordsworth
When I grow up I want to be a little boy. -- Joseph Heller
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older. -- Bob Geldof
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president. -- Pat Paulsen
I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen. -- Stephen Moyer
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts. -- John Mahoney
I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up. -- Anthony Hopkins
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend. -- George Lindsey
Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie. -- Kel Mitchell
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school. -- Alan Moore
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels. -- Wilbur Smith
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there. -- Neil Jordan
I've got a reputation for doing a certain type of film: lads' movies that glamorise violence. The more my reputation as a bad boy grows, the more my life moves away from that. -- Nick Love
There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. -- Doris Lessing
A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear. -- Carlo Collodi
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula. -- J. C. Watts
I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life. -- Hugh Jackman
When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could have an impact on the whole world, and even as a young boy I was passionate about fitness and sports. -- Magnus Scheving
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all. -- Michael Leunig
I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy. -- Tom Hardy
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older -- Bob Geldof
I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with. -- Rodney Dangerfield
What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man. -- Gertrude Stein
A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man. -- Herbert Hoover
When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated -- Darren Hayes
I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies. -- Sidney Altman
One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things. -- Art Alexakis

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