Famous quotes containing the words boys learn, boys and/or learn:
“In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.”
—Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, ch. 3 (1991)
“Its a funny thing about men, you know. They all start life being boys. I wouldnt be surprised if some of these senators were boys once.”
—Sidney Buchman (19021975)
“We cannot learn the cipher
Thats writ upon our cell;
Stars help us by a mystery
Which we could never spell.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)