“I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.” IfsBoysFireBrotherBirthAuthorityPartnersBeachMy BrotherCousinEmployersWilsonBrianMy CousinBeach Boys Author:Mike Love
“My dad treated me like a boy because he grew up with four brothers. He didn't baby me. He was never, like, "You're a girl, you can't do this." I never felt like I had to put a feminine spin on anything, I just wanted to do what the boys did as good or better.” GirlBoysBrotherLike YouBabyDadMy DadFeminine Author:Kid Sister
“I love working with women. I think it's because I spent so much time in my brother's heavy metal band. Sweaty boys in the rehearsal room. It's nice to just be in the studio with a fragrant lady.” ThinkingRoomsBoysNiceBrotherBandStudiosHeavyMy BrotherMetalsRehearsalHeavy MetalMetal Band Author:Mr Hudson
“And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsMadeTwoLastsThreeCausesParentMemoriesRoomsBoysBrotherMomBedMovedMy MomMade ItSupposed To BeSatMy BrotherNbaThree YearsOddsApartmentFurnitureEighteenLiving RoomSingle ParentMvpBest MemoriesEighteen Years Old Author:Kevin Durant
“My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family.” MindIdeasJoyFatherBoysBrotherPrideMy BrotherSexismArthurLeon Author:Lucille Kallen
“My mum always used to say to me that, out of her three boys, 'Chris, you were the girl!' I'd speak to her about far more things (than my brothers would) and far more things than she needed to hear about, too. I was a chatty kid.” KidsUsedGirlThreeSpeakBoysBrotherNeededMy BrotherMum Author:Chris Hemsworth
“The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.” MenNeedsFirstsDifferentAgeAbleSpiritDesireIndividualResultsDealsStepsBoysBrotherMassGainsGuidesCorporatePlanesRealisingFirst StepsOutlookOlder BrotherDifferent AgesScoutmasters Author:Robert Baden-Powell
“Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.” LittlesRunningFacesMotherHateGirlFoundHeavenBoysCuttingBrotherHairBabyProtectAdultsFingersPocketsClimbingBubblesTolerateDirtBrothers And SistersJumpingFrogsGumMother LoveBaby BoyOlder SisterBubble Gum Author:Alan Beck
“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.” GivingFeelsFirstsSoulWaterBoysSeaCrazyLandBrotherHolyHealthySightEnvironmentalShipsGreekMysticalDeitiesVibrationsVoyagesPassengersRobustHealthy Soul Book:Moby Dick Source: Moby Dick
“I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little camera, wrote a script and dragged my brother, Tony, out of bed to help me (which he did not like), so that we could shoot a film every day for six weeks. It was made for £65 and it was called Boy On A Bicycle.” LittlesArtMadeHelpingFilmBoysWeekCollegeBrotherBedSixSummerCamerasScriptsMy BrotherHelp MeBicycle Author:Ridley Scott
“I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.” LittlesUsedGuyBoysBrotherDressesMakeupDressingsModelingLittle BrotherLike A BoyMy Little BrotherNo Makeup Author:Grace Jones
“Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed glasses..Ira had a kid brother who wore high stiff collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.” MadeKidsGirlSidesBehindsKnownClassBoysBrotherPersonalityLowsEastShirtsPairsSpokesHidingSteelGentlenessCollarsLovableSpectaclesIraGershwinCuffsEast SideIncongruity Author:Yip Harburg
“No offense, boys are more immature than girls. Knowing that and not wanting any BS in my life - not having time for it - you just have to be smart about it. Obviously, if you're really attracted to someone and you're in love with them, that's fine. But I see all my brothers and how they act and ... to be picky is good.” IfsGirlBoysKnowingBrotherFineSmartMy BrotherOffenseBeing SmartImmaturePickyAttracted To Someone Author:Nicola Peltz
“I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.” WayLittlesDreamWantedBitsMy OwnRoomsBoysBrotherLittle BitStrikesSupposed To BeDesperateOscarsMessyCarelessStickyLittle BrotherMy Little Brother Author:Nate Berkus
“I'm kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.” KindUsedGuyBoysBrotherGrewGrew UpTreated Author:Katee Sackhoff
“I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.” LittlesDreamHandsAbleGirlBlackWhiteBoysBrotherOne DayLipsRacistGovernorsBrothers And SistersViciousAlabamaDrippingBlack GirlWhite GirlBlack BoyNullificationJoining Hands Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.” StoriesNightThreeBoysFootballBrotherBedGloryFilledRateHugEldersAnnuals Author:Andrew O'Hagan
“Yeah, I was a brother on the streets of Compton doing a lot of things most people look down on but it did pay off. Then we started rapping about real stuff that shook up the LAPD and the FBI. But we got our message across big time, and everyone in America started paying attention to the boys in the hood.” PeopleLooksRealBigsAmericaStuffPayAttentionBoysStreetsBrotherMessagesYeahRapPay AttentionFbiHoodComptonReal StuffLapd Author:Eazy-E
“When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and snowboarding. If my brother was mowing the lawn, I had to mow the lawn. If my brother was using a hammer, I needed to use a hammer. I've always been a little bit of a feminist.” IfsTryingLittlesUseKidsBitsBoysBrotherNeededLittle BitFeministMy BrotherHammersAlways TryingLawnsSkateboardingSnowboardingMowingMowing The Lawn Author:Daria Werbowy
“I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.” YearsKindTwoBoysBrotherGrewBandGrew UpAll KindsTwo BrothersBagpipes Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“I promised myself as a kid that I would not become that guy. So I have my finger on the pulse of what is going on and I love relevant music today. We are talking about artists like Kendrick Lamar, School Boy Q, Absoul, that whole crew. Of course Evidence and Alchemist, those guys are my brothers and I love those guys, they have been lifelong friends but I have always sort of looked up to them artistically.” Has BeensWholeKidsTodaySchoolArtistGuyCoursesTalkingBoysBrotherEvidenceFingersMy BrotherRelevantCrewLifelongPulseThat GuyAlchemistLifelong Friends Author:Shane Bunting
“We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.” IfsBoysImagineTroubleCrimeBrotherStoresRanMy BrotherTerritoryChicagoGangsters Author:Quincy Jones
“Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because he's a man? If they both played sports since they were three years old, they both worked just as hard, but because he's a boy, they're gonna give him more money? Like, how am I gonna explain that to her? In tennis we've had great pioneers that paved the way - including Venus [Williams], who fought so hard for Wimbledon to pay women the same prize money they pay men, and Billie Jean King, who is one of the main reasons Title IX exists.” IfsMenWayGivingYearsHardReasonJobsThreeSportsPayBoysBrotherKingsDaughterIncludingTitlesTennisPrizeMy DaughterThree YearsMore MoneyPioneersVenusThree Year OldsWimbledonPrize Money Author:Serena Williams
“I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.” IfsThinkingWritingYearsStillsBoysBrotherDesignation Author:Louise Erdrich
“I had a brother who died early on - he was 23 when I was 19. And, boy, I certainly didn't expect that. That was utterly shocking.” BoysBrotherDiedShocking Author:Jeff Goldblum
“I loved working with my brother [Beau] and my father [Lloyd] whenever that happened. I had a wonderful experience making "The Fabulous Baker Boys," which I felt was a great movie, too.” FatherFeltBoysWonderfulHappenedBrotherMy BrotherFabulousBakersWonderful Experience Author:Jeff Bridges
“I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.” ThreePoorBoysFourBrotherMumThree Brothers Author:Thomston
“My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't talk about our feelings ever, and if we did, we were yelling about them - there was no in-between. That's just carried over so many ways in my life and sabotaged relationships, sabotaged creative stuff.” IfsWayFeelingsMotherThreeFatherStuffBoysCreativeBrotherCatholicSarcasticYellingCatholic FamilyFather And BrotherVery Sarcastic Author:Anthony Green