“I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting.” KnowsWayI CanHelpingFightingSportsBoysTypeMy FriendsMy FamilyCleanUpsetDemonMy Boys Author:Michael Irvin
“At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.” PeopleHeartHomeKidsUsedMotherNightFatherHurtTalkingBoysFireMy HeartQuietHundredMy FamilyTablesCalmDinnerSupposed To BePleasantNeighborhoodStomachLaughedHomeworkDinner TableClamorScarvesFireplacesCaleb Author:Veronica Roth
“I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.” KindBoysGrewGrew UpMy FamilyBlindFolksHeavyStoresTraditionalCaliforniaDietsCornerstonesFolk MusicAmerican Music Author:Ben Harper
“I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me.” WellsLittlesBoysDogGrewGrew UpMy FamilyTrust MeLittle BoysShepherdsDog LoveLabradorsGerman Shepherds Author:Paul Walker
“It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.” PresidentBoysMorningMy FamilyMovedClubsGet UpClockEvery MorningSeattleMessed UpFerry Author:Quincy Jones
“I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I just couldn't ratify their behavior and their decisions anymore by showing up on Sundays.” DecisionBoysBehaviorMassMy FamilyPainfulSundayShowing Up Author:Anna Quindlen
“I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.” ChildrenReligiousClassBoysMy FamilyAltarsCatechism Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I had in mind a case close to my family, friends of my parents, who seemed to be the perfect bourgeois family, and a young boy, who when he was 17, committed suicide. It was such a shock. The parents didn't understand. Nobody understood why he did that. Everybody was exploring his life, trying to understand what the problem was. Everybody had a feeling that this guy had the perfect life: he was beautiful, he was clever... but he did that. I had that in mind, about Isabelle in Young and Beautiful, for the parents to see adolescents like aliens.” TryingMindFeelingsProblemBeautifulGuyParentPerfectBoysMy FamilySuicideCommittedCleverAliensExploringFamily FriendsPerfect LifeYoung And Beautiful Author:Francois Ozon
“My inspiration comes from many sources, and one of those sources is precisely the maison Versace. When I was a little boy, my family was not very well off. I had a sister who worked in a hairdressing salon. I lost my dad when I was 4 or 5 years old. I grew up with eight sisters and my mom. Nine incredible women all a little "à la Donatella Versace." Real strong women from the South of Italy, women who had sensuality. They had a confidence in their body and in their sensuality. And it was a poor family, I am very proud to say it.” RealInspirationStrongPoorBoysMomProudDadMy FamilyIncrediblesMy DadMy MomSensualityStrong WomenLittle BoysVersace Author:Riccardo Tisci
“When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.” KnowsLittlesAsksBoysTearsMy FamilyIndianTrailsFamily HistoryOklahomaBloodline Author:Brad Pitt
“If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.” IfsHomeHouseWinningFamilyBoysMy FamilyPoliceDepartmentBrutalPolice BrutalityBrutalityOaklandPolice Department Author:Tupac Shakur
“When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.” BeautifulYoungChurchAttentionBoysGrowing UpGrowingClothesMy FamilyDressesShoesPassionateHatsSundayCoatsDressingsGlovesCarolinaAccessoriesNorth CarolinaHandbagsMeticulousDurhamChurch Service Author:Andre Leon Talley
“The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.” LittlesBookHomeUsedChurchBoysMomHolyMy FamilyLibrarySoldierMy MomShipsWanderOur FamilySundayAfternoonPullingKnightsAstronautPirateLittle BoysSabbathAway From HomeWandering AroundSunday AfternoonsPirate ShipsHome Away From Home Author:Kami Garcia
“You’re my sister,” he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”—he laughed soundlessly and without any humor—“to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.” WantShouldSaidBoysBloodProtectMy FamilyLaughedMy SisterJaceClary FrayProtect YouCity Of Glass Book:City of Glass Source: City of Glass
“I was hoping they would put up flyers like they do for lost cats." He said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'hotstuff'." "You did not just say that." "You don't like 'hotstuff'? You think 'sweet cheeks' might be better? "Love crumpet'? Really? That last one's stretching it a bit. Though, technically my family is British-” ThinkingSaidMightLastsLostBitsAnswersBoysMissingSweetCatMy FamilyBritishAttractiveCheeksTeenageJaceStretchingFlyersCrumpets Author:Cassandra Clare