Boy
A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.
To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race.
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Boy Quotations
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain
Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
Steve Jobs
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost
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.
Pablo Picasso
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Charles Dickens
One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
Rodney Dangerfield
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
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
Princess Diana
Boy Translations
boy in Afrikaans is seun
boy in Dutch is knaap, jongen
boy in Finnish is poika
boy in French is serviteur
boy in German is Knabe, Junge
boy in Italian is giovinetto, ragazzo
boy in Latin is puer
boy in Norwegian is gutt
boy in Portuguese is menino, rapaz
boy in Spanish is criado, muchacho, chico
boy in Swedish is pojke, yngling
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