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Quotes About Boys

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 know what I'll do next! Not you! A boy's emotions were like baseball bats that blindsided them.
~ Liane Moriarty
Her boys were gorgeous little darlings. Her boys were feral little animals.
~ Liane Moriarty
Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Divine boys were just like human ones, and why should that surprise her? The toxic masculinity went all the way to the top. Of-fucking-course it did.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Maybe, like, a fang. That would be awesome — a big ol' wolf fang!" Honestly, the things boys think are awesome… "You'd probably love it if it had drool all over it," Amy said.
~ Linda Sue Park
I hope you boys will excuse me, but I would rather the State Police answered all questions. I am sure you understand how I feel.
~ Unknown
Hundreds of studies of various cultures have proven that, on average, boys play more than girls with constructional toys like Lego and toy cars, and girls play more with dolls.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.
~ James Dobson
In the mid-1980s, there wasn't a representation of gayness on television. Our glitter and our goofiness and our great costumes made in Vegas; the cheekiness and campiness of the show, it turns out little boys who were gay coveted our act.
~ Ivory
My son is all into construction vehicles like most boys are, so he's enthralled with dump trucks and bulldozers.
~ Nick Lachey
Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
~ Brenda Laurel
We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
~ Jon Scieszka
So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
We couldn't say her name often enough. It tickled us to mention her name to strangers and watch the expressions on their faces. Girls liked her. Boys liked her. And-- most remarkable-- the attention came from all kinds of kids: shy mice and princesses, jocks and eggheads.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Their four blond boys were indistinguishable except for height: John, Kyle, Kevin, and Junior. The oldest was five, and having them so close together meant their mom couldn't laugh too hard anymore or she'd accidentally pee. (She'd told me on the uncomfortable ride home.)
~ Jess Lourey
That's the thing about small-town boys. All they had to do was come up with that one shtick, a crack at just the right time, or a Hail Mary touchdown, or nail the part of Romeo in the class play, and they were set. They never had to try again. Here's the thing about small-town girls: we let them get away with it.
~ Jess Lourey
I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.
~ John Hurt
I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.
~ Lola Kirke
Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy.
~ MaryJanice Davidson
There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.
~ Unknown
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
~ James S. Coleman
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.
~ Peter Jurasik
Dead Rabbit" became the standard phrase by which city residents described any scandalously riotous individual or group. But there seems to be no justification for referring to the Bowery Boys' adversaries by this name.32
~ Unknown
One boy is worth half a man Two boys are worth half a boy Three boys are no help at all.
~ Unknown