Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Jean Paul
Wilson Mizner
Thomas Carlyle
Alfred Lord Tennyson
John Irving
Stephen Jay Gould
All authors
Today's birthdays
1928 - Maya Angelou
1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto
1810 - James Freeman Clarke
1987 - Sarah Gadon
1964 - David Cross
1922 - Elmer Bernstein
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Architect
Author
Celebrity
Chef
Cartoonist
Artist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Schoolboy Quotes
Schoolboy Quotes
At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
Hussein of Jordan
Seventeen
Dream
Would
Never
Knew
Schoolboy
End
Again
Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.
Alan Furst
Evil
Conviction
Consequences
Honourable
Finish
Fired
Schoolboy
Done
Regarding
Fast-Paced
Start
There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.
Anthony Horowitz
You
Strange
Stay
About
Something
Schoolboy
Read
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Very
Forever
Stories
Holmes
English
My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.
Geoffrey Fisher
Seriously
Feelings
Those
Sight
Enter
Ring
More
Schoolboy
Perhaps
Bull
Getting
Decided
Holidays
Who
As a teenager, I was in the Carlisle schoolboy scheme and while I was excited to join at first, I look back on it as a tough few years.
Glenn Murray
Tough
First
Few
Teenager
Back
Join
Scheme
Excited
Schoolboy
Look
Years
While
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Gore Vidal
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Schoolboy
Most
Read
Lincoln
Biography
I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Long
Every
Would
See
Schoolboy
Go
Exhibitions
Going
Afternoon
Figures
Switzerland
Thin
Started
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.
James D. Watson
Me
Rain
Passion
Father
Bird
First
Books
Evolution
Charles
About
Darwin
Had
Indoors
Schoolboy
Read
Learned
Became
Still
His
Chicago
Up
Snow
While
Growing
Growing Up
Aware
Kept
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
James Stockdale
Me
Business
Papers
Seemed
Seems
Having
Throwback
Like
Schoolboy
Felt
Yeah
Any
Just
Mean
Helpless
When I first signed schoolboy forms for United, as a midfield player, I felt for a while that I was just treading water.
Mark Hughes
Water
First
Signed
Schoolboy
Felt
Just
While
Midfield
Forms
United
Treading
Player
I wrote a song that basically turned into a public service announcement for the fellas out there, like, 'Should you run into this type of woman, run for your life!' So the name of the song is 'Run,' featuring the rapper ScHoolboy Q. It's one of the standouts on the album, in my personal opinion.
Ne-Yo
Life
Service
You
Woman
Song
Rapper
Type
Out
Run
Announcement
Name
Like
Schoolboy
Wrote
Opinion
Personal
Public
Turned
Should
Your
Public Service
Album
Basically
I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
Rufus Sewell
Reading
Sit
Though
Out
Some
Shakespeare
Through
Schoolboy
Forced
Course
Got
Model
Depended
Really
Who
As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His 'David Copperfield' has had the strongest influence on me - I looked up to David Copperfield as a role model.
Ruskin Bond
Me
Charles
Charles Dickens
Strongest
David
Had
Schoolboy
Looked
His
Dickens
Up
Model
Role
Role Model
Influence
Loved
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
Stephen Daldry
Work
Time
History
Learning
Country
Spent
Post-War
About
Knew
Schoolboy
Piece
Period
Well
Sort
Another
Always
Well-Spent
Lot
German
Very
Germany
Wanted
Little
Little Time
I saw Angus Young running around in a schoolboy uniform shredding on the guitar and just thought, 'That looks like a cool job.'
Tom Walker
Guitar
Job
Thought
Young
Saw
Running
Like
Schoolboy
Looks
Around
Just
Uniform
Cool
I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.
Vinnie Jones
Home
Me
Three
Parents
Second Chance
Back
Kicked
Signed
Out
Never
Football
Divorced
Schoolboy
Sorted
Ball
Got
Years
Left
Getting
Forms
Then
Rebelled
Second
Chance
Needed
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
Will McDonough
Me
Sports
Job
First
Year
Gave
Months
Jobs
Boston
Writer
Schoolboy
Globe
Ready
Editor
Department
Graduate
Six
Worked
Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.
William Whitehead
Old
Every
Tale
Schoolboy
Knows
Which
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
Tom Stoppard
Happy
Fact
Schoolboy
Very
Being
Loved
Turned
English
No more schoolboy quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Also
Am
Asia
Acting