Little.lad Quotes

I ain’t going to kiss ye, poppet. Just keep still like a good little lad.

And what do they talk about beyond the barricade, my little lad?” “Um…well, Justice an' Truth an' Freedom and stuff,” said Nobby. “Aha. Rebel talk!” said Carcer, straightening up. “Is it?” said the major. “Take it from me, major,” said Carcer. “When you get a bunch of people using words like that, they're up to no good.

Rain falling on water… Ah, yes…When he was a little lad he’d pretended that the raindrops splashing in the running gutters were soldiers. Millions of soldiers. And the bubbles that sometimes went floating by were men on horseback. Right now he couldn’t remember what the occasional dead dog had been. Some kind of siege weapon, possibly.

In the possibility of a loyalty to the virtues which makes men manliest in good women's eyes. If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tenderhearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves and are not ashamed to own it.

Very likely some Mrs. Grundy will observe, "I don't believe it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles." I dare say you don't, Mrs. Grundy, but it's true nevertheless. Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings. Let the boys be boys, the longer the better, and let the young men sow their wild oats if they must. But mothers, sisters, and friends may help to make the crop a small one, and keep many tares from spoiling the harvest, by believing, and showing that they believe, in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women's eyes. If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tenderhearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves and are not ashamed to own it. Laurie

18. Your life is before you. Be careful of the choices you make now that you could regret later. This regret is the subject of an old poem whose author has been forgotten. I hope you’ll never have reason to apply it to yourself. Across the fields of yesterday, He sometimes comes to me A little lad just back from play— The boy I used to be. He looks at me so wistfully When once he’s crept within; It is as if he hoped to see The man I might have been.

As the years went on, two little lads of her own came to increase her happiness—Rob, named for Grandpa, and Teddy, a happy-go-lucky baby, who seemed to have inherited his papa’s sunshiny temper as well as his mother’s lively spirit.

Yes, Jo was a very happy woman there, in spite of hard work, much anxiety, and a perpetual racket. She enjoyed it heartily and found the applause of her boys more satisfying than any praise of the world, for now she told no stories except to her flock of enthusiastic believers and admirers. As the years went on, two little lads of her own came to increase her happiness—Rob, named for Grandpa, and Teddy, a happy-go-lucky baby, who seemed to have inherited his papa's sunshiny temper as well as his mother's lively spirit. How

If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may- for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tender-hearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves, and are not ashamed to own it.

One morning I was reading the story of Jesus’ feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. “Let me have them,” said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker, Ruth Stull of Peru, had said: “If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.

Very likely some Mrs. Grundy will observe, “I don’t believe it; boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles.” I dare say you don’t, Mrs. Grundy, but it’s true nevertheless. Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings. Let the boys be boys, the longer the better, and let the young men sow their wild oats if they must; but mothers, sisters, and friends may help to make the crop a small one, and keep many tares from spoiling the harvest, by believing, and showing that they believe, in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women’s eyes. If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tender-hearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves, and are not ashamed to own it.

Would you say that that man is at leisure who arranges with finical care his Corinthian bronzes, that the mania of a few makes costly, and spends the greater part of each day upon rusty bits of copper? Who sits in a public wrestling-place (for, to our shame I we labour with vices that are not even Roman) watching the wrangling of lads? Who sorts out the herds of his pack-mules into pairs of the same age and colour? Who feeds all the newest athletes? Tell me, would you say that those men are at leisure who pass many hours at the barber’s while they are being stripped of whatever grew out the night before? while a solemn debate is held over each separate hair? while either disarranged locks are restored to their place or thinning ones drawn from this side and that toward the forehead? How angry they get if the barber has been a bit too careless, just as if he were shearing a real man! How they flare up if any of their mane is lopped off, if any of it lies out of order, if it does not all fall into its proper ringlets! Who of these would not rather have the state disordered than his hair? Who is not more concerned to have his head trim rather than safe? Who would not rather be well barbered than upright? Would you say that these are at leisure who are occupied with the comb and the mirror? And what of those who are engaged in composing, hearing, and learning songs, while they twist the voice, whose best and simplest movement Nature designed to be straightforward, into the meanderings of some indolent tune, who are always snapping their fingers as they beat time to some song they have in their head, who are overheard humming a tune when they have been summoned to serious, often even melancholy, matters? These have not leisure, but idle occupation. And their banquets, Heaven knows! I cannot reckon among their unoccupied hours, since I see how anxiously they set out their silver plate, how diligently they tie up the tunics of their pretty slave-boys, how breathlessly they watch to see in what style the wild boar issues from the hands of the cook, with what speed at a given signal smooth-faced boys hurry to perform their duties, with what skill the birds are carved into portions all according to rule, how carefully unhappy little lads wipe up the spittle of drunkards. By such means they seek the reputation for elegance and good taste, and to such an extent do their evils follow them into all the privacies of life that they can neither eat nor drink without ostentation. And

And what do they talk about beyond the barricade, my little lad?’ ‘Um . . . well, Justice an’ Truth an’ Freedom and stuff,’ said Nobby. ‘Aha. Rebel talk!’ said Carcer, straightening up. ‘Is it?’ said the major. ‘Take it from me, major,’ said Carcer. ‘When you get a bunch of people using words like that, they’re up to no good.

Although you're a man now, you'll always be the same little lad in my eyes.

THE LYNCHING by Claude McKay His spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven. His Father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him to his bosom once again; The awful sin remained still unforgiven. All night a bright and solitary star (Perchance the one that ever guided him, Yet gave him up at last to Fate’s wild whim) Hung pitifully o’er the swinging char. Day dawned, and soon the mixed crowds came to view The ghastly body swaying in the sun The women thronged to look, but never a one Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue; And little lads, lynchers that were to be, Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee.

I now take my little lad, who’s five. I’ve told him he can follow any religion he wants, be any person he wants, be whatever sexuality he wants, but there are two things he has to do: be nice to his mum and follow Sheffield Wednesday. Do those and you’re all right with me.

Baothan that was afterwards a saint of the Gael was of the kindred of Columcille, and it was Columcille sent him when he was a little lad to be taught by Saint Colman Ela.

Perhaps it is worth nothing at all. How can I tell?” he thought, with the heartsickness of a great timidity. Now that he had left it there, it seemed to him so hazardous, so vain, so foolish, to dream that he, a little lad with bare feet, who barely knew his letters, could do anything at which great painters, real artists, could ever deign to look. Yet he took heart as he went by the cathedral: the lordly form of Rubens seemed to rise from the fog and the darkness, and to loom in its magnificence before him, whilst the lips, with their kindly smile, seemed to him to murmur, “Nay, have courage! It was not by a weak heart and by faint fear that I wrote my name for all time upon Antwerp.

To engage in acts of play is to betray the being of persona trying to not be. The little lad like many of the other fellows asked of my demeanor and engagement boundaries. I replied with as much pretension and pride on the top of my head, “I have no use for such normative acts, nor does it fulfill the needless deeds of my callous virtues”. A dictation upon irony and ponder.

No Jews now,’ she chirruped, ‘to waylay poor little lads and hang them up in cellars. It was a good day for England when they were packed off.

Ballad of a Carpenter" "Jesus was a working man And a hero you will hear Born in the town of Bethlehem At the turning of the year At the turning of the year When Jesus was a little lad Streets rang with his name For he argued with the older men And he put them all to shame He put them all to shame He became a wandering journeyman And he traveled far and wide And he noticed how wealth and poverty Live always side by side Live always side by side So he said, "Come all you working men, You farmers and weavers too If you would only stand as one This world belongs to you This world belongs to you When the rich men heard what the carpenter had done To the Roman troops he ran Saying put this rebel Jesus down He's a menace to God and man He's a menace to God and man The commander of the occupying troops He laughed and then he said There's a cross to spare on Calvary's hill By the weekend he'll be dead By the weekend he'll be dead Now Jesus walked among the poor For the poor were his own kind And they'd never let them get near enough To take him from behind To take him front behind So they hired one of the traitors trade And an informer was he And he sold his brothers to the butcher's men For a fistful of silver money For a fistful of silver money And Jesus sat in the prison cell And they beat him and offered him bribes To desert the cause of his fellow men And work for the rich men's tribe To work for the rich men's tribe And the sweat stood out in Jesus' brow And the blood was in his eye When they nailed his body to the Roman cross And they laughed as they watched him die They laughed as they watched him die 2,000 years have passed and gone And many a hero too, But the dream of this poor carpenter Remains in the hands of you Remains in the hands of you

He was a chubby little lad with round red cheeks and a big smile. It was one time when Frank was running against Festus he got the idea. He put fat little Fahey in the collar and the black suit and sent him around ringing Protestant doorbells. He’d ask to see the lady of the house. He’d be let in half the time, and then he’d go into the speech. ‘Good morning, madam,’ he’d say. ‘I’m Father Francis Xavier Fahey, of the Jesuit Fathers, up on the hill. I’m calling on you in the interests of good government. The Jesuit Fathers are highly interested in the candidacy of Festus Garvey and we’re trying to drum up a little support for him.’ Then he’d give her a sneaky smile and a little wink.