“We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.” YearsTwoKidsAgeGamesSportsParentTalkingBoysStupidYouthAdventureDaughterEightDrivingMy DaughterHockeyFourteenTrophiesIdioticGood RelationshipYouth SportsClose Family Author:Jeff Daniels
“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.” PeopleMenYearsMindMeanMatterStatesGrowsImaginationNumbersEmotionQualityBoysYouthAdventureSpringRedIdealsTwentiesLipsEaseKneesFiftyAppetiteState Of MindTemperCheeksVigorFreshnessTimidityRed LipsSupple Author:Samuel Ullman
“As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.” WorldChildrenFacesUsedAnimalWonderClassBoysWatchesFantasyMiddleAdventureCloudsGiantsMiddle ClassDragonsCastlesMundaneMiddle Class Life Author:Barry B. Longyear
“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.” WorldHelpingActionChoicesGirlIndividualSocialGrowthBoysSupportEnvironmentFieldsAdventureIndustryComfortLaborMotherhoodCirclesWildernessNurtureSocial Action Author:Gerda Lerner
“What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp magazines. They lacked the visceral appeal of his Tarzan stories, which inspired an estimated 89 movies; amazingly, this is the first John Carter movie, but it is intended to foster a franchise and will probably succeed.” FirstsStoriesBoysAdventureSucceedInspiredMagazinesAppealsRiceCarterAdaptedVisceralPulpBurroughs Author:Roger Ebert
“Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.” WayCountryRealityAgeHousePoorBoysChangedAdventureTalesOnce Upon A TimeOwingPoor Countries Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.” WantChildrenGrowsBoysGrowing UpAdventureUniversalAppeals Author:Tessa Jowell
“Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.” PeopleAcceptingBoysNovelGrowing UpGrowingAdventureComplimentRidersVictorianHaggard Author:Walter Smith
“A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.” SongClassBoysMiddleAdventureMaterialsMeetingsWideLondonQueensMiddle ClassDragDrag QueenTransvestites Author:Marc Almond
“We've all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they're all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.” TwoSometimesStoriesYoungBoysAdventureFemaleTokensProtagonists Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.” BookKidsActionReadingPleasureFictionBoysNovelForeverFocusAdventureDefinitionsMagazinesWebsiteGraphicNon FictionSharksGraphic NovelsPleasure Of Reading Author:Jon Scieszka
“The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.” MayLongDoeStoriesHappensLyingOrderFoundLeftSecretBoysForeverKnowingDoorsMiddleAdventureHeroLong TimeFruitWickedWitchAbandonedVacationPrincessQuestsProphecyUnclesHappy EndingsUnicornBeing A HeroWicked Things Author:Peter S. Beagle
“One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.” WorldHumansSaidStillsWonderBoysNovelForeverModernAdventureHeroNormalEndureTalesFairyFairy TaleDiscoveringModern WorldMy HeroStrangeness Author:Regina Doman
“Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.” MomentsBigsLastsFacesDiesNextFeltBoysSeaRocksAdventureStandingPassingPassingsRanPeter Author:James M. Barrie
“It’s all right,” the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. “My grandmother always told me ‘Never try to turn back on a new road—you don’t know what adventures await you.” KnowsTryingTurnsFeltBoysAdventureGrandmotherMy GrandmotherTremblingNew Roads Book:The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series Source: The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series
“There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.” BookMightBoysNovelMysteryYouthAdventureTravelHistoricalInnocentFunny TravelLibrarianMystery NovelsKennethHistorical NovelsAdventure Books Author:Peter Straub
“When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.” WorldFeelsBookUseHandsKidsSchoolYoungHouseEnjoyHoursImaginationBoysAdventureGreenTrainLibraryUniversityMy FavoriteSaintBoxesSpendingFantasticPlanesEggsNew WorldMiceFoxesMy ImaginationHamFavorite PlacesNew AdventureSchool LibraryGreen Eggs And Ham Author:William Lacy Clay, Jr.
“William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a moving, humane adventure about the price of personal connections and the costs of sacrifice. I tore through this bad boy in two short nights.” HeartKindTwoSoulEnoughMovingNightBoysSacrificeAdventureCostHundredConnectionsThese DaysGenerousStorytellerHumaneBad BoyYarnPersonal ConnectionSpinner Author:Victor LaValle
“What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?” WellsDreamAgeStarsSidesBoysFeetSkyStreetsAdventureLaysWildernessHorizonBurnedVirginsLitLampsLawnsVelvetFleeingUntamed Book:The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo Source: The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo