“I came to realize, along with being attracted to girls, I had similar feelings for boys. All the people close to me have known for years who I am. Yet it took time to embrace that other part of who I always was.” PeopleYearsFeelingsGirlRealizingKnownBoysEmbraceWho I Am Author:Joel Grey
“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?” IfsThinkingKnowsMenMightRealizingKnownBoysLate Book:Literary Lapses Source: Literary Lapses
“you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.” WayWantChildrenRealizingWhiteBoysRacismMy WayScreamJustificationWhite SupremacySpoiledSupremacySpoiled Children Book:...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel Source: ...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel
“When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.” WritingYearsFirstsLongSaidBookDreamRealizingBoysMetaphorFar AwayPilgrimage Author:Paulo Coelho
“In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay.” YearsDifferentPlayCharacterRealizingNumbersBoysGayMouthsSeriesDiariesEntryThirteenDifferent CharactersWord Of MouthThirteen Year OldsDiary Entries Author:James Lecesne
“You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed off the cave. It's a completely preserved time capsule. You've got tracks of cave bears that look like they were left yesterday, and you've got the footprint of a boy who was probably eight years old next to the footprint of a wolf.” YearsLooksFacesNextLeftRealizingBoysRocksEventsBearsYears AgoTrackEightYesterdayCavesFootprintTime Capsules Author:Werner Herzog
“Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.” LittlesPersonsRealSelfUseWantedTogetherGuyOrderSidesRealizingAcceptingBoysCareersSwimDividedTidesOutsidersAcidAnarchistThat GuyLittle BoysLonerReal SelfPeyote Author:George Carlin
“Many kids only think about the present moment and don't realize that they are creating a digital footprint, which will follow you forever! You have to be careful about what you put on the Internet. It can even prevent you from getting a job! Other kids... especially girls... give in to peer pressure and take racy photos for boys because they think it will make the boy like them more. This NEVER works. Girls, let him like you with your clothes on.” ThinkingGivingMomentsKidsJobsGirlRealizingBoysForeverLike YouInternetCreatingClothesPressureCarefulDigitalPresent MomentBe CarefulPeersFootprintPeer Pressure Author:Tyra Banks
“I think about it, and I realize there's been some version of a Batman or Spiderman or Superman franchise since I was a boy, since before I was a boy.” ThinkingRealizingBoysVersions Author:Clark Gregg
“I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.” ThinkingMindChildrenLittlesMadeSchoolPainRememberFacesGirlNationsRealizingForgetPoorBoysKnowingDoorsCollegeNever ForgetMexican Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Like if you're Jewish you have to wear a hat, but only in the middle of your head. But it all becomes clear the second that you realize that God is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's.” IfsYearsRealizingBoysClearMiddleHatsAspergers Author:Eugene Mirman
“I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.” PeopleIfsKnowsIdeasHateGamesRealizingBoysLike YouBandPicksAdultsHungerMailOne DirectionBoy BandsHate Mail Author:Joel Stein
“I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only little girls.” YearsLittlesAgeRememberYoungGirlRealizingLordBoysWrittenYoung WomenAdolescenceOnly TimeLittle WomenHoldenHolden Caulfield Author:Winona Ryder
“It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.” LongGuyGirlRealizingPowerfulBoysSawsLong TimeBeing A Girl Author:Lizzy Caplan