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Quotes About Boys

'Jersey Boys' has been the most amazing experience ever and has exposed an entire new audience to the music. It's great to see people of all ages coming to the show.
~ Frankie Valli
I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But what I actually discovered confirmed my own common experience, that you also had little boys who loved their fathers and little girls who loved their mothers.
~ Arnaud Desplechin
Then summer came. A summer limp with the weight of blossomed things. Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of corn letting their auburn hair wind down to their stalks. AND THE BOYS. The beautiful, beautiful boys who dotted the landscape like jewels, split the air with their shouts in the field, and thickened the river with their shining wet backs. EVEN THEIR FOOTSTEPS LEFT A SMELL OF SMOKE BEHIND!
~ Toni Morrison
Maureen appeared at my elbow, and the boys seemed reluctant to continue under her springtime eyes so wide with interest. They buckled in confusion, not willing to beat up three girls under her watchful gaze. So they listened to a budding male instinct that told them to pretend we were unworthy of their attention.
~ Toni Morrison
I'll take you and BAKE you. A witch came sneaky~sneaky~sneaky. I'll take you and bake you, she said. And she gave it a pat. The pumpkin tried to look very scary. But it just looked big and FAT. The witch reached for it. But--she hid instead. Girls and Boys--- searching, seeking, peeking.
~ Tony Johnston
It's just I'd rather sleep through the days so I'll be awake for the nights, when the boys are out.
~ Kerry Cohen
boys into sports programs where they're expected to behave like seasoned professionals. It's not tying your love and acceptance
~ Kevin Leman
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
~ Kin Hubbard
who, from what I could tell, was a few years younger than I. He was sitting on the steps of the porch next to Davy Gude, another Vineyard boy, whose parents
~ Carly Simon
Boys are also constantly calling each other slobs and morons. The evaluations lose a lot of their power.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Girls shimmered, as if all the light shone on them and not on the boys at all.
~ Carrie Mac
The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.
~ Carrie Underwood
Where yet my boys are, and that fatal She, Their mother, the cold partner who hath brought Destruction for a dowry—this to see And feel, and know without repair, hath taught A bitter lesson; but it leaves me free: I have not vilely found, nor basely sought, They made an Exile—not a Slave of me.
~ George Gordon Byron
Ser Rodrik groused. His opinion of singers was well known; music was a lovely thing for girls, but he could not comprehend why any healthy boy would fill his hand with a harp when he might have had a sword.
~ George R.R. Martin
They are still unblooded, Catelyn thought as she watched Lord Bryce goad Ser Robar into juggling a brace of daggers. It is all a game to them still, a tourney writ large, and all they see is the chance for glory and honor and spoils. They are boys drunk on song and story, and like all boys, they think themselves immortal.
~ George R.R. Martin
As a boy, he used to run across this bridge, even in the black of night. Boys believe nothing can hurt them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.
~ George R.R. Martin
Why do boys so love to play at war?
~ George R.R. Martin
As Sean seem determined to shadow her every move, she concluded that young boys were much like cats. They insisted on giving their company to those who most feared or distrusted them.
~ J.D. Robb
I don't know if it's scientifically possible, but I swear there's about six months' worth of trapped boy-farts in this room.
~ J.D. Robb
Still, good boys liked to make their moms happy, and Blay had always been a good boy. His
~ J.R. Ward
The Jeremiah guy invited me to come work for the government. He said he was with the military and they were looking for guys like me. I was all, 'Farm boys? Y'all looking for redneck farm boys?
~ J.R. Ward
but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
~ Jack Kerouac
They [the Jesuit boys] were full of corny quips and Eastern college talk and had nothing on their bird-beans except a lot of ill-understood Aquinas for stuffing for their pepper.
~ Jack Kerouac
Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon.
~ James Vanderbilt