“I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.” GivingPlayAbleFatherGamesBoysProveBaseballGive MeMy BoysQuentin Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.” IfsWellsMightBoysColorFitProveBlueWitStanding OutAudacityMuster Author:Josh Kilmer-Purcell
“The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.” MenDoeSchoolSinBoysAtheismSonPureProveBasesInjusticePositive AtheismInnocentGuiltyHeroismVolunteerNegligenceImmaculateDunces Author:Lord Byron
“Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the camera department. The ones that are have to kind of prove they're one of the boys, I think. I don't want to get into trouble with generalisations but I think it's a fair observation.” PeopleThinkingWantKindBoysTroubleDirectorsProveFairsCamerasCome UpObservationDepartmentGeneralisation Author:Colin Firth
“Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.” I CanPlayBigsActionFilmBoysComedyWillingDramaProveAction Films Author:Sasha Grey
“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.” MomentsRunningRememberFoundInterestWaterBoysBabyProveRiversGreenWineForgottenTalesGoldenApplesFairyLeapRealisticFairy TaleEchoesNurseryAmazement Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesGirlEmotionBoysProveMasculinity Author:Gloria Steinem
“There was a part, you know, obviously there was a part of the whole I military experience that you know like hooks right into the whole boyhood experience that that you know most American boys have growing up, you know, which is proving your manhood by proving how hard you are, by proving that you can take it.” KnowsHardWholeBoysGrowing UpGrowingMilitaryProveManhoodHookBoyhoodMilitary Experience Author:Peter P. Mahoney