I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.
One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.
I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.
I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.
once,a boy told a girl : i will stay with you forever, little did she know that his forever is only three months because..he died of cancer!
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.
I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.
Sometimes, when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
