B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.”
“Boys climb hills “because they are there.” Men climb mountains because they know there is something beyond them and they want to see it. They want to see what is “behind,” “farther in,” and “deeper down.” Men are not afraid of what they will find. They know something is there because no matter where man has looked, there has always been more. Armchair explorers call that more “randomness.” Real explorers call it God.”
“Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I've heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad.”
“Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.”
“Boys do not have the language skills of little girls. Boys go to school feeling like idiots. We wonder why fifty-six percent of the enrollment at universities is female. I might consider having same-sex education. Boys from day one are pampered and feel good about themselves and then when they go to school, they feel like idiots. I would have exercise in the morning at eight. They clearly learn better after they open up their brain. Why can't we accommodate the brain and not the school?”
“Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.”
“Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. They long for fathers who have themselves survived intact. Boys do not ache for their father's masculinity. They ache for their fathers' hearts.”
“Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person”
Source: Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys
“Boys do what they can; men do what they want”
“Boys do what they want to do, Men do what they need to do.”
“Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.”
Source: Jo's Boys
“Boys don't cry, but men do.”
“Boys don't cry-or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.”
“Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.”
“Boys don't mature. They just age. But aged boys know how to flow with a different destination, and to shine with different color.”
“Boys don't really like big nerdy glasses. Not so much.”
“Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same.”
Source: Stolen
“Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
Whatever they are.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Boys dream of strippers, men dream of their women waiting for them at home.”
Source: Acquiring Trouble
“Boys eat better when their parents continue to expect them to eat vegetables and include them in home-cooked meals as they get older. Or - better still - get them to prepare the home-cooked meals themselves.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Boys everywhere take note: That was a kiss.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Boys everywhere. All seven of them plus their dad, running and laughing and shoving each other around on the front lawn, engaged in what appeared to be a full-contact, tackle version of ultimate Frizbee. They were playing shirts and skins. Shirts and might-fine-lookin' skins.”
Source: Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys
“Boys find love in pants and girls find in pockets.”
“Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.”
“Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.”
“Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.”
“Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys”
Source: The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men
“Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.”
“Boys grow up to be men. And it’s men who cause all the trouble. They’re the ones who shed the blood and poison the earth.”
Source: Sleeping Beauties
“Boys had something else...a sort of swagger about them.”
Source: Leviathan
“Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.”
“Boys have penises and girls have vaginas. If they touch at the wrong time, you can make a baby or die.”
“Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.”
“Boys... I hope you all just die.”
Source: A Girl on the Shore
“Boys—I think you're old enough now that I can talk about—certain topics with you. You know, most men expect a woman's body to look a certain way and not all of them do look that way. So sometimes a woman has to do something that will change her appearance so that she'll be accepted by the people around her. People expect a woman's breasts to be a certain size and mine aren't that size. They're smaller. So I wear a padded brassiere—it makes it look like my breasts are the size that most women's are.”
Source: I Never Liked You: A Comic Strip Narrative
“Boys ignored me. I never thought I was gorgeous.”
“Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.”
“Boys in books are better.”
Source: More Than Forever
“Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.”
“Boys just stared at you as if you were a complicated dessert surrounded by unknown tableware.”
Source: Catch the Rabbit
“Boys laugh at what they put girls through - but they won't be laughing when - they're wiping tears off their daughters face for the same reason.”
“Boys like a little more booty to hold at night.”
“Boys like girls who look like...girls.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.”
Source: Lost Memory of Skin
“Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.”
“Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.”
“Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.”
“Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton