“My husband is like, "Oh, thank God we didn't have a boy, because there's this train set that I've always wanted, and these Star Wars spaceships . . ." They say, "Don't spoil your kids," but it's one thing spoiling your kids, it's another thing spoiling yourself.” WarKidsWantedStarsBoysOne ThingHusbandTrainMy HusbandThank GodSpoilSpaceships Author:Milla Jovovich
“Women have to be careful and teach their girls to be aware of their surroundings and never be alone with testosterone-crazed boys. A lot of little lives are being ruined and our society is to blame. Our kids are just searching and being curious but they are dangerously looking for the wrong kind of attention.” KindLittlesKidsGirlAttentionBoysTeachBlameCarefulCuriousOur SocietyBe CarefulRuinedSurroundingsTestosterone Author:Pamela Anderson
“We're gonna do it like George Foreman. We're gonna name all of our kids Mariah no matter if they're boys or girls. Mariah No. 1, Boy Mariah, Man Mariah, Tall Mariah. It's gonna be a house full of people named Mariah.” PeopleIfsMenMatterKidsGirlHouseNamesBoysTall Author:Nick Cannon
“I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.” KidsGrowsBoysGrowing UpOur LivesHopefullyBullied Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.” ThinkingMeanStoriesHomeRunningKidsFatherParentBoysDestinyImagineGrewGrew UpShadowResponseIndividualityGhostRunning AwayImagine ThatCharting Author:Pico Iyer
“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
“I have six kids - four girls and two boys. I'm amazed that growing up in the same house, same parents with the same exposure to the same things that all my six kids can be so different. I see that as their (being) designed by God.” TwoDifferentKidsGirlHouseParentBoysGrowing UpFourGrowingSixAmazedExposure Author:Alex Kendrick
“The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.” MindFirstsStoriesKidsFacesReadingFunEasyBoysTerribleThings To DoRight ThingGiantsCourageousOddsDefeatedVersusMy BoysLove Of ReadingGoliath Author:Matt Cullen
“I got into DJ'ing because I started to listen to New York radio a lot. Obviously, I knew the stuff everybody knew, like Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, but I heard "Who Got the Props" by Black Moon, and I went up to this kid in my school with the Walkman on and was like, "What is this? You must tell me how I can get this now." Because there was no Shazam or googling lyrics.” I CanKidsSchoolStuffBlackEnemyBoysHeardNew YorkMoonRadioPropsDjsPublic Enemies Author:Mark Ronson
“I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was this kid, Justin. My office at the time was right in the front, so I just looked out the window. I couldn't write. I couldn't concentrate. I was like, "What are you doing? What do you expect to achieve by standing in front of my house with my daughter inside?" I hated that kid so much.” WritingKidsSchoolRememberHouseBoysAchieveFrontsOfficeDaughterStandingWindowHatedMy DaughterHanging OutTwelveRemember WhenJustinAfter School Author:Cinco Paul
“There is only one way a boy can be sure to learn to play hockey - on the pond, on the creek, on a flooded lot. The foundation of hockey isn't really hockey at all. It's shinny, a wild melee of kids batting a puck around, with no rules, no organization - nothing but individual effort to grab and hold the puck.” WayPlayKidsIndividualEffortBoysOrganizationFoundationOne WayHockeyPondsBattingPuckCreeksIndividual Effort Author:Lester Patrick
“One of those strange things that happens in movies is that you need someone to actually say people's names, or else you have no idea who those kids are. This was a way for her to introduce who the important boys were in the story, but then it just was so funny that it became a centerpiece to it. When you look at the character design that Tim did for Weird Girl, and what Catherine [O'Hara] did with the voice, and it's gonna kill.” PeopleWayNeedsLooksImportantIdeasCharacterStoriesHappensKidsGirlNamesVoiceBoysDesignStrangeNo IdeaIntroducingStrange ThingsCenterpiecesCharacter Design Author:John August
“I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.” KnowsCharacterKidsBoysDadDumbFrustratedSmarterMischief Author:Alex Hirsch
“There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.” MenYearsLittlesWholeKidsBoysWifeMy WifeStaringDisplayLittle KidX Men Author:Hugh Jackman
“Boy, I miss the days they made toys that could kill a kid.” MadeKidsBoysMissingToys Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“Even before the kids are born, you've go to make these decisions. If it's a boy, do we get him circumcised? If it's a girl, do we keep her?” IfsKidsGirlBornDecisionBoys Author:Greg Giraldo
“My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic.” MenKidsBoysFiveSixHeroicStepfathers Author:Tim Allen
“Saw a lost dog sign with a pic of the dog and a little boy hugging it. I'm assuming the kids safe and we're just focusing on the pooch.” LittlesKidsLostBoysSawsDogSafeAssumingHugLittle BoysLost Dog Author:Dane Cook
“In high school, I got picked on. It's funny that I got tormented for what I'm doing now - the acting thing. People would see me in a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day at school. Kids would say, 'Hi, TV Boy.' They heckled. I never got beat up.” PeopleKidsSchoolNextActingBoysTvsBeatsHigh SchoolNext DayNickelodeon Author:Jason Biggs
“Every time I read anything, whether it be a book, a script, or anything, I automatically imagine myself as the boy in the plot. I don't know why. Seriously, anything. If I'm reading a magazine article or whatever, I picture myself as the kid people are talking about. It's really weird. I don't know why I do that.” PeopleIfsKnowsBookKidsReadingTalkingBoysImagineScriptsMagazinesPlotArticlesReally Weird Author:Josh Hutcherson
“We didn't want to do that. It would have been a beautiful moment in the movie but it would have brought the movie down. So Danny's vision was perfect I think when he wanted it to be driven at the same time having this new emotion about this boy coming as a hallucination or like a déjà vu and as the future kid.” ThinkingWantHas BeensMomentsKidsWantedBeautifulPerfectEmotionVisionBoysDrivenHallucinationsBeautiful Moments Author:A. R. Rahman
“I've got people who like Tommy Boy, but they're getting older and there's a whole new wave of college kids who see that and Joe Dirt, and Just Shoot Me is a little older, so I wanted stuff for everybody.” PeopleLittlesWholeKidsWantedStuffBoysCollegeWaveDirtGetting OldGetting OlderMy Boys Author:David Spade
“I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.” PeopleTwoKidsRememberMotherGirlNamesBoysBonesIndianBowsSixteenWalkersCatchyCherokeeAuntieCherokee Indian Author:T-Bone Walker
“Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it!” FirstsWellsHeartKidsWantedGuyBoysBrokenMarriedFirst TimeWork OutWoodsTragicStationsWagonsHeart Broke Author:Jamie Foxx
“I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a TV set in Circuit City. I was looking at this kid and he was kind of standing there, staring off into space. Kids are pretty chubby nowadays because of all the fast-food places. I grew up eating fast food but now everything is double beef and double cheese. So there are a lot of these chubby boys with long, baggy shorts.” KnowsKindLongHomeKidsSpaceCitiesBoysSawsTvsGrewEatingGrew UpStandingStaringBuyingCheeseBeefCircuitsFast FoodShortsStanding ThereEating Fast Food Author:Mike Judge
“The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.” HomeKidsGirlChurchBoysStreetsCryAgingPainfulBlockLoudTeenageFeedingChipsPotatoesCongregationDiscardedToddlerTeenage GirlTumblingPotato ChipsPainful TruthTumbling Down Book:Dreams From My Father Source: Dreams From My Father
“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 went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsWellsIdeasKidsSchoolSongSidesClassBoysGrowing UpSawsGrowingFirst TimeCome UpWriting SongsChoirPianist Author:St. Lucia
“The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was a boy soprano. I didn't do that much classical music; I did a little bit. I had a lovely voice. And then when my voice dropped, I didn't worry about it consciously because I wasn't that invested in my singing at the time.” LittlesHas BeensWholeKidsBitsVoiceMy OwnBoysWorryHugeAmountLittle BitSingingLovelyClassical MusicSopranosLovely Voice Author:Sam Amidon
“I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.” BookBigsKidsImaginationPartyBoysReaderHorseRidingMy ImaginationCaptured Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.” WorldFirstsBookKidsBoysParticularThirdsStartingDrawingObsessionComicGradesFortyClassroomComic BookSuperheroMy BoysDreamyClassmatesThird GradeMarvel Comics Author:Adam Ross
“I was the last one of nine kids - eight girls and me last - and my sisters were going out. They were teenagers. And as they were getting ready, I would sit on the bathtub and watch them put on makeup and transform themselves - you know, putting on clothes and giggling about the boys they were going to meet and everything. So for me, that was an amazing thing - the fact of transforming themselves.” KnowsFactsKidsLastsGirlBoysWatchesReadyClothesEightNineTeenagerMakeupMy SisterGoing OutTransformingAmazing ThingsBathtubs Author:Riccardo Tisci
“I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out.” WayYearsStoriesKidsYoungBoysMiddleFiguresMomDadTruth IsMy DadMy Mom Author:Moshe Kasher
“It was my second show as a writer, and Justin Timberlake was just coming off boy-band stardom. People were rolling their eyes, but I used to watch the Mickey Mouse Club, and I knew all those kids were talented as hell. Justin was as comfortable on camera in that first episode as any of our cast members.” PeopleFirstsShowsEyeKidsUsedBoysWatchesHellBandMembersComfortableCamerasCastsClubsEpisodesRollingMiceJustinMickeyStardomBoy BandsCast Members Author:Jason Sudeikis
“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
“I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.” KidsFightingSoundVoiceBoysHeavyLike A Boy Author:Mavis Staples
“Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to be that smart and if you... as a boy you're not even supposed to like school. All of the sudden you've got kids who are afraid, black kids and Latino kids who are afraid to be great, afraid to bask in the enjoyment of education, lest they be labeled less than black, less than Latino, less they be called the oreo.” IfsMayFactsKidsSchoolBlackBoysEmotionalSmartSupposed To BeEnjoymentLiteracyLatinoCombiningOreosEmotional Literacy Author:John Amaechi
“Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.” BodyKidsGirlNamesParentBoysMiddleBabyKneesVoidButtonsBellyPubertyBaby BoyBelly Buttons Author:Peggy Orenstein
“I wasn't a kid when I came out. Soulja Boy was 16. I'm saying that when he came out he was a kid so it was naturally a show for him. It's not about the music right away. It's a show for him. Not that he's not putting enough effort into his music, but how much effort can a 16 year old put into his music because as you mature and get older even the songs he's doing now has evolved and he's looking back.” YearsEnoughShowsKidsSongEffortBoysMusic IsMatureLooking Back Author:Nelly
“Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.” PeopleKnowsChildrenCareKidsParentWonderBoysWatchesTake CareUnhappyThank GodPigs Author:Maurice Sendak
“The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in the world and have half of the dreams and ambitions. Our slogan is, "If they see it, they can be it."” IfsWorldWholeShowsDreamKidsGirlSpaceInterestingHalfBoysAmbitionSlogansInteresting ThingsBoy And Girl Author:Geena Davis
“Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.” KnowsI CanRealFactsProblemBigsKidsStuffDifferencesLinesFictionBoysGrowing UpIssuesGrowingCrazySeriousIndustryEntertainmentHandleSpillsEntertainment IndustryBlurrySerious IssuesNewsworthyFact And Fiction Author:Rob Lowe
“I think just being a '90s kid - I was not a Backstreet Boys girl, I was definitely into NSYNC.” ThinkingKidsGirlBoysJust BeingBackstreetBoy GirlBackstreet BoysNsync Author:Jillian Hervey
“I want these to be names that young girls and boys and kids of all genders grow up knowing. It shouldn't just be when you take a feminist class in college, if you happen to do that. I hope this is fun and engaging for folks to watch.” IfsWantHappensKidsYoungGirlNamesFunGrowsClassBoysWatchesGrowing UpKnowingCollegeFolksFeministGenderEngagingBoy And Girl Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“None of my 22 grandchildren have genetics played. Three of my four boys were golf pros, but I think they all sort of said, "You know, I'm not going to push" with their children. I was the same with my kids. I said, "You know, if they want to play golf, that's fine, but I'm not going to push them."” IfsThinkingKnowsWantChildrenSaidPlayKidsThreeBoysFourFineGolfGrandchildrenGenetics Author:Jack Nicklaus
“[My boys] they're all different. Jackie was very competitive. He was a tough kid - a little bit like Nick. Steve was sort of a finesse guy. He was a little bit like Nick - if he could touch it, he'd catch it. He played wide receiver at Florida State. Then, Gary came along and Gary was more my size.” IfsLittlesDifferentStatesKidsGuyBitsBoysLittle BitToughSizeWideFloridaJackieGaryReceiverMy BoysFinesseWide ReceiverFlorida State Author:Jack Nicklaus
“Aunt May's values and Spiderman's traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a young man, she's there to provide that safe place where he can still be a kid if he needs to be, or know that he has a home base as he's going through all these physical changes. So as long as those essentials are there, we can work on finding the character together.” IfsKnowsMenNeedsKindMayLongStillsCharacterHomeKidsTogetherYoungValuesBoysBecomingSafeEssentialsFindingsTraumaDefinedYoung ManAuntSafe PlacesHome Base Author:Marisa Tomei
“The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future I'm talking about. When I'll be long gone, it'll be them and their kids. I know that sometimes the darkest times are followed by the lightest. Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen. At the very worst, we're having very open discussions, discussions about things we didn't even know f-king existed. I talk to my friends about it and they are absolutely shocked. They didn't even know.” KnowsLooksLongTwoSometimesFactsHappensKidsTalkingBoysGoneFeminismWorstKingsRacismMy FriendsGood ThingsDiscussionBad ThingsShockedDarkest Times Author:Michael Buble