Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.
I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.
I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A.... push shuffle and anything will come on.
I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.
In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen, on a farm in New York or Pennsylvania.
I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!
You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington.
Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.
I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.
Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.
