I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
The heroes of our youth grow old – ‘the boys of summer in their ruin’, in Dylan Thomas’s verse – yet we seem the same.
I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because I hated the idea so much. And the one I came up with, I got very excited by. And that’s ‘Alexander, Who’s Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever’.
I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I’m lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I’m gonna make a song that sounds like that.
There’s an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!
Bad boys are classy and refined. For example, even though Donald Trump came from money and a privileged lifestyle, he’s a man’s man.
When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me – I have eight boys and one girl in my family.
Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, ‘Jim Rash’ just screams ‘Southern boy.’
Of course training is very important, but resting is just as important. You have to get your recuperation, and I think all players make that mistake where they train hard but they don’t rest enough, and even our school boy players, we tell them to get a lot of rest.
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama’s boy.
I love being in the Beastie Boys.
I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.
All girls like guys who are tough. Obviously, riding a motorcycle – I don’t want to say that there’s a bad boy quality – but there’s definitely a tough and macho thing about a guy who rides a motorcycles and that element of danger. That’s really sexy.
I’ve never stayed in a tent or a caravan in my life, and I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don’t see the point of going on holiday to enjoy less comfort than I have at home.
Boys with a ‘failure to launch’ are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
My boy, one small breeze doesn’t make a wind storm.
But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
Since I was a boy – born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA – I’ve had agriculture running through my veins.
Not to be purple, but I’ve never been a ‘bad boy’ kind of girl. I like manners.
The philosophy of the school was quite simple – the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
There have been prank shows that have been really elaborate, setting up fake car accidents and burglars. For us, we wanted to strip it down completely, didn’t want to do anything that someone else couldn’t do – a lot like the Jerky Boys.
There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love.
I was a dancer, and it’s not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like ‘Footloose’ where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I’d be like, ‘Oh, didn’t you see ‘Footloose,’ man?’
That’s my ideal day, time with my boys.
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn’t too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
I am a country boy and proud of it.
As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I’ve ever done.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
As a young boy in a new country, you had to make new friends, and that was really difficult.
Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they’re even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they’re confined.
Since Nandita Das comes from a different school of acting, I had to behave in a particular manner. Then with the boys – Rahul Dev, Purab Kohli and Akaash Saigal – it was another ball game.
I always used to play with the boys and loved it. You never asked yourself the question if there should be a difference between a boy or a girl.
I can’t take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’
I’m a good boy! I do what I’m told; I’m on time. I’m always where I’m supposed to be when I’m supposed to be there. I don’t mess around with other people’s time and schedule. And I eat my vegetables. And my meats. And my carbs. And my dairy.
Be sure of yourself, don’t let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.
It was great working with Salman. He doesn’t come across as the ‘bad boy of Bollywood.’ He is a very generous actor. There are actors, who don’t let you have your space on screen and try to steal it. But Salman is not like that.
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader.
It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
I urge everyone – men, boys, women and girls – to join me in standing up for girls’ rights with Plan U.K.
Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
I’m a London boy, born and bred, and I’ll be there for as long as I can.
I would like to work with The Weeknd. That’s my boy, though; that’s my friend.
The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama’s boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.
I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can’t imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
I raised two sons, and I know that even though they’re bigger and stronger than I am, they’re still little boys inside. They still cry, they still hurt. So whenever I write a male character, no matter how ‘heroic’ he may be, I think of my sons. And I remember that every man was once a little boy.
I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
I have long hair because I’m American Indian. I’m an Oklahoma boy, and I’m very proud of my heritage.
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They’re low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why – these guys are too sad.
Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.
I’m a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it’s fake, but I’m having fun.
I like bad boys… not really bad, but men with an edge… they should be clean but have that streak.
I got called ‘pretty boy’ my whole life.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
