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Quotes About Boys

Psychologist Michael Thompson has pointed out that silence in the face of cruelty or sexism is how boys become men.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Alcohol has been shown to diminish boys' ability to read social cues or notice a partner's hesitation. It gives them the nerve they might not otherwise have to use coercion or force to get what they want: drunk guys are more aggressive when they assault and less aware of their victim's distress. Inebriation also makes boys less likely to step in as bystanders than they would be if they were sober.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers
~ Daniel Clowes
Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.
~ Giles Andreae
Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me.
~ Daria Snadowsky
He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold.
~ Dave Eggers
Some things never change," said Abby wearily. "Boys never grow up, they just get bigger with more hair and people start calling them men.
~ David Baldacci
As his own state and ours, 'tis to be chid—As we rate boys who, being mature in knowledge, Pawn their experience to their present pleasure, And so rebel to judgment.
~ William Shakespeare
I am in the service of lost boys struggling to be good men.
~ Unknown
One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. They drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf police man heard the noise, and ran to save the two dead boys. And if you don't believe it's true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
There was something savage and elemental and feral in him. The fact that he was a savant only added to the intrigue. I always go for the dangerous boys, Leesha thought.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
In black and white it had been easy to ignore. But here was a television station with the audacity to send pictures of real red blood into everyone's home. Our boys in the field were bleeding in color.
~ Unknown
Do not piss as you stand and face the sun, but do it after the sun sets and before it rises, and even then do not be naked, for nights belong to the gods. ... Sire your children when you return from a feast of the gods, not when you return from an ill-omened burial. ... The sixth day of the month does not favor plants but is good for the birth of boys; it does not favor either the birth or the marriage of girls. But gelding of kids and lambs hurts less then.
~ Hesiod
School is no longer a peaceful place where you can catch up on your daydreaming, forget your family ( or what is left of your family) and talk about things like Dr. Who and how to stop GLobal Warming (we all know how but we don't stop it) and if it is okay for boys to wear pink and all those other things we talk about.
~ Hilary McKay
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
~ Hillary Clinton
You don't think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?
~ Holly Black
One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
~ Holly Black
Hazel, Hazel, blue of eye. Kissed the boys and made them cry
~ Holly Black
You don't think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?
~ Holly Black
Oh for goodness sake. Why do boys always have to talk about their feelings all the time? It's so gross. - Tamara
~ Holly Black
Winter made sure he got in before his sister, positioning himself in the middle like some kind of chaperone—as if, when the infection kicked back into high gear, Aidan was going to care whom he attacked. Not to mention that Aidan liked boys just fine anyway.
~ Holly Black
Boys change," she told him. "And so do stories.
~ Holly Black
The boys at the baths loved me. Of course, they were all drunk and high and would've loved a French poodle barking out "Jingle Bells"!
~ Unknown
It looked like girls were controlled by their feelings but the opposite was true. Girls had excellent control of their feelings. They spun them around like batons: Now I'm crying! Now I'm laughing! Who knows what I'll do next! Not you! A boy's emotions were like baseball bats that blindsided him.
~ Liane Moriarty