Cub Scout Quotes:

The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and promote qualities which parents and the community are looking for. The whole purpose of scouting is to help the children grow up making good decisions in life.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Children, Growing Up, Moving, Cub Scout

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

- Robert Baden-Powell

source: Robert Baden-Powell (1918). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.45, Cedar Fort

topic: Circumstances, Scouting, Cub Scout, Scoutmasters

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

- Carl Barks

topic: Kids, Boys, Years, Cub Scout, Boy Scout

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

- Daniel Carter Beard

topic: Boys, Men, He Man, Cub Scout, Boy Scout

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

- Betty Friedan

source: The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

topic: Husband, Children, Struggle, Dissatisfaction, Mystique

My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white.

- Laura Bush

topic: Girl, Mother, Hair, My Girl, Girl Scout

We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Suicide, Baby, Blow, Meatloaf, Kitchen Confidential

Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.

- Cornel West

source: "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

topic: White, House, Courageous, Cubs, Cub Scout

Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Running, Memories, Bus Stops, Cub Scout

Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.

- Jeff Dunham

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Growing Up, People, Laughing, Cub Scout

How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Basketball, Team, Boys, Cub Scout, Sacramento

The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can also be a powerful folly amplifier.

- Paul Saffo

topic: Powerful, Flying, Use, Amplifiers, Flying Saucers

Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them.

- Eoin Colfer

source: Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.108, Penguin UK

topic: Team, Water, Cracks, Cub Scout, Artemis