— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
Quelle: Finnikin of the Rock
„You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!… O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!“
— Charles Dickens, buch Bleak House
Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 19
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„Hell? Mr. Human Boy Person? Can you hear the Simi? Or are you dead? Hello? (Simi)“
— Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965
Quelle: Infinity
— Ilmari Kianto Finnish writer 1874 - 1970
Cited in: Tuomas Tepora, The Finnish Civil War 1918: History, Memory, Legacy, 2014, p. 191
— Ingrid Newkirk British-American activist 1949
Vogue 1989 September 1
Attributed variants:
"When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy"
"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They’re all animals." — Washingtonian magazine, 1986 August 1
„Boys will be boys. Boys commit mistakes.“
— Mulayam Singh Yadav Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times 1939
Comments in opposition to a change in law against rape. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/31/india-gang-rape-katra-sadatgunj-fathyer-speaks Burke, Jason (31 May 2014)
— James A. Garfield American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881) 1831 - 1881
Garfield: "No. My work is done."
Conversation with his secretary, Colonel Rockwell the day before he died. These have been reported as his last spoken words. (18 September 1881)
1880s
— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
Quelle: 1930s, Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 31
„There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy…“
— Eden ahbez American songwriter and recording artist 1908 - 1995
"Nature Boy" (1948) - Nat King Cole performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw - Pat Boone and Nat King Cole duet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NaWYZI2Nzo
„The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.“
— Markus Zusak, buch Die Bücherdiebin
Quelle: The Book Thief
„Those braying sheep on my TV screen -
Make this boy shout! Make this boy scream!“
— Paul Weller (singer) English singer-songwriter, Guitarist 1958
Going Underground (1980)
„My name is Jimmy,
but my friends just call me
the hideous penguin boy.“
— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958
Quelle: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
„Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.“
Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.
— Virgil, Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 641
„My lovely living boy,
My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.“
— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas French writer 1544 - 1590
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: "My fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world", William Shakespeare, King John, act iii. sc. 4.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
— Jane Addams pioneer settlement social worker 1860 - 1935
Quelle: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 6
— William Empson English literary critic and poet 1906 - 1984
"Just a Smack at Auden" (1937), line 15; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 81.
The Complete Poems
