“Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.” LittlesDifferentPlayNaturalBoysFailingUniversalDistinctionRoughAggressionLittle BoysNatural Play Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!” KnowsWantTryingPlayGirlWinningBoysTeachArgumentRoughMy BoysHarveyYounger Sister Author:Steve Harvey
“[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.” MenYearsStillsHandsThreeBoysImpossibleLettersMarkFellowsRoughThree YearsAwkwardDeckLikeableThree Year Olds Book:The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902
“I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train.” BoysTrainStormFlyingPlanesGentlemanRoughPilotsThunderLadies And Gentlemen Author:Muhammad Ali