B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Boys like you are the boys I live to destroy
from "The Rental Car Guy" by Charlotte Cross”
Source: Asarotica
“Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.”
Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
“Boys must find ways to compete and see themselves as performing well. If they do not, if society does not provide them with these opportunities, they'll compete against society itself, abusing their community and themselves.”
Source: The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into Exceptional Men
“Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
Nor men the weak anxieties of age.”
Source: The Complete Works of Horace
“Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me.”
Source: First Love and Other Novellas
“Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.”
Source: The Historian
“Boys need feminine mothers who support them and their masculinity.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude”
Source: The Wonder of Boys
“Boys need to talk more. Boys need to say things and not assume things. You and my pa and Steffan and everyone, you’re going to make us girls insane!”
Source: Palace of Stone
“Boys need wood to chop.”
“Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.”
Source: Red Glove
“Boys never really walk past cars, we pause, dream, snap a pic, and then drag ourselves away!”
“Boys never seemed stupider than when they were surprised by the bad behavior of other men.”
Source: Unbecoming
“Boys often have permission to become men without the forfeiture of their desirability. And so these men write stories that grasp at girls who are ghosts twice over: first by being dead and second by being shallow shadows of actual girls, the assorted fragments of men's aging imaginations rather than the deep and dimensioned creatures that real girls are.”
Source: All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
“Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.”
Source: The Gate to Women's Country
“Boys,” said Amelia as she and Patrick stepped forward with the last gift, “Can you never give anyone anything useful?”
At the same time Danny and Mason broke out into grins and said, “But those are useful.” Amelia shook her head, her blond curls cascading beautifully around her.”
Source: Forbidden
“Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola.”
“Boys see beautiful girls everywhere and want to sample them all. Men recognize a rare jewel and want to savor every moment of her radiance.”
“Boys seek attention, men demand respect.”
“Boys Shack, MEN build homes”
“Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.”
“Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession...”
“Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system….
They ought to practise leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession…”
“Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.”
“Boys suck. Even when they have perfect blue eyes and ridiculously cool trucks. Maybe especially then.”
“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".”
“Boys, to her, are usually simply less interesting versions of girls.”
Source: Mistletoe and Murder
“Boys torment each other when there’s nothing else to do and no Frenchmen to fight.”
Source: The Ill-Made Knight
“Boys turns girls into such idiots.”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.”
“Boys want to have fun, and girls need to feel wanted.”
“Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.”
“Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.”
“Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.”
Source: The Thirteenth Princess
“Boys who slay monsters for their friends are dreamy.”
Source: My Life From Hell
“Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.”
Source: Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim
“Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus”
“Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.”
“Boys will be boys, that's what people say. No one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether. We are to stifle the same feelings that boys are encouraged to display. We are to use gossip as a means of policing ourselves -- this way those who do succumb to sex but are not damaged by it are damaged instead by peer malice. Girls demand a covenant because if one gives in, others will be expected to do the same. We are to remain united in cruelty, ignorance, and aversion. Or we are to starve the flesh from our bones, penalizing the body for its nature, castigating ourselves for advances we are powerless to prevent. We are to make false promises then resist the attentions solicited. Basically we are to become expert liars.”
Source: Anthropology of an American Girl
“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”
“Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.”
“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”
“Boys will be boys... They commit mistakes.”
“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.”
“Boys with hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin”
Source: The Great Believers
“boys with mischievous smiles and poetry hearts”
Source: she's flowers and fire
“Boys with power were admire —legendary heroes worthy of songs and poetry to remember their honor. Girls with power were painted as malicious, evil, because we wanted more to life than birthding children and following duties. Chasing dreams was forbidden and *love* was a word we'd never truly understand.”
Source: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods
“Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck.”
Source: The Penelopiad
“Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a watch or necklace.)”
Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (B&N Custom Pub)
“Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.”