When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers. – Michael Dirda
My job in ‘Motive’ is to be the rebellious teenager – what boy wouldn’t want to be that? – Cameron Bright
I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him. – Estelle
I haven’t changed. I’m still the same boy, and I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing. – Dele Alli
I played the young Reese Witherspoon in ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10. – Dakota Fanning
I hurt my knee, and that messed up my running, and boy did that ever just have a cascade effect. I’ve gained about thirty pounds that my doctors have screamed at me about. I’ve got to get that off, and I know that. – Mike Huckabee
When my own son was 12, we didn’t want toy guns in the house. So he just picked up a stick and went, ‘Bam! Bam! Bam!’ That’s the testosterone of a 12-year-old boy. – Edward Zwick
I wasn’t ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in many respects. – David Cassidy
I’ve had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy. – Elizabeth Edwards
I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I’d started doing yoga by the early 1970s. – Dave Davies
Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn’t read. He was illiterate. – D. B. Sweeney
I don’t deal with the whole ‘bad boy who doesn’t call you.’ That doesn’t interest me at all, and I just look the other way. – Mackenzie Rosman
I was a kitchen porter for an hour at the Bank of England when I was 18. In the cafe, someone clicked their fingers and shouted, ‘Boy, come and clear my table.’ I walked out. – Neil Morrissey
There’s also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity. – Neil Tennant
The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys’ name. – Pete Hamill
Several countries – among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden – ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy. – Peter Singer