Quotes About Boys

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed, its radian best enjoyed, not beheld directly. A Thousand Splendid Suns, 133

So I've seen my boys do that a hundred times with the neighboring pixy girls. Give her their favorite seed and be too flustered to tell her what it was.

The demon had trouble remembering what she was doing, but she was powerful, sort of the crazy Wendy of the lost lord-of-the-flies boys.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

Boys need to have the courage to fight back!" their mother continued. "If you want to keep on playing with girls all the time, I'm going to have to snip off your weenie!

Life, love, boys—it was all about balance. ~Anna Percy

Pearl giggled. "I know. He's so cute, and we need boys for dancing.

While boys create connections through friendly competition, girls create connections by downplaying competition and focusing on similarities.

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

UGH. Boys. They're like French class--no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.

The boys organized air-soft gun wars, so eight sweaty, stinky boys are running through my house wielding semiautomatic pellet guns dressed in sweatshirts though it was 97 degrees yesterday. My rule on this boy business: "Don't cry if you get pinged, and if one stray pellet hits me, I will run over your guns with my car." This is life with sons, people.

Boys don't gossip." "Pah! You don't know us as well as you think." This was a disturbing prospect.

One horror of motherhood lies in the moments when she can see both the exquisiteness of her child and his utter inconsequence to others. There are so many boys in the world.

One horror of motherhood lies in the moments when she can see both the exquisiteness of her child and his utter inconsequence to others. There are so many boys in the world. From a distance they look alike even to her, especially in uniform.

I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.

I have a plan. Boys, it's hunting season. Weapon up

You should be ashamed of yourself," Mrs. Laughlin said fiercely. "Playing with an old woman's feelings like that. And dragging the boys into whatever you were doing in Toby's wing? It's cruel is what it is.

You Hawthornes and your invisible ink," I said, shaking my head. "Will we need anything except the powder?" "A makeup brush," Zara answered immediately. Then the boys chimed in, all four of them in unison: "And a heat source.

I felt myself tense up, having long noticed that this was something men (and boys, obviously) did after any breakup. Dub their exes "crazy." Discredit them, make it seem as if the men were lucky to have gotten out of the relationship. In fact, Julie had once told me it was the most common narrative in the aftermath of a divorce—the justification men used for their own misconduct. A form of misogyny.

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.