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This Boy

«If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education»
«This boy is one of five that I raised and they are the finest, I think, in the United States. If you care to give him a lift I would say the Ohio State Journal is still doing some good.»
Author: Frank Nixon | Keywords: Ohio, This Boy
«For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.»
Author: William Gibson | Keywords: mourning, slid, This Boy
«The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's»
«No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.»
«This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.»
Author: Princess Diana (Princess) | Keywords: This Boy
«He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: boots, coarse, jacks, This Boy
«The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.»
«What is genius?- It is the power to be a boy again at will»
«What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.»

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