Lad Quotes

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road.

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Being a lad is what I'm about.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.