Boys Quotes

“Men and boys should be capable of beautiful things.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“Boys are suffering, in the modern world. They are more disobedient—negatively—or more independent—positively—than girls, and they suffer for this, throughout their pre-university educational career. They are less agreeable (agreeableness being a personality trait associated with compassion, empathy and avoidance of conflict) and less susceptible to anxiety and depression,172 at least after both sexes hit puberty.173 Boys’ interests tilt towards things; girls’ interests tilt towards people.174 Strikingly, these differences, strongly influenced by biological factors, are most pronounced in the Scandinavian societies where gender-equality has been pushed hardest: this is the opposite of what would be expected by those who insist, ever more loudly, that gender is a social construct. It isn’t. This isn’t a debate. The data are in.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Though there were no strong conventions, until the nineteenth century pink was certainly a very suitable color for boys.”
― Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man

“It was as if a virus had been injected into our school, but Macey'd known about a thousand boys before she'd come here. And I'd known Josh. The two of us had been exposed to boys before, so we had built up antibodies. We were, in a word, immune.”
― Ally Carter, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for virginity (and it makes me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out, since the loss of virginity is a process that usually involves two people of opposite genders).”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“As we examine the youth of today, we must realize that the negative behavior we see on the outside, is a result of a deeper need on the inside.”
― Eric M. Watterson

“Sun-brushed hands trailed circles on his wings, opening new ways to touch the sky. The dance is the dalliance of the whispers, unsaid desires brighter than eternal suns. His teeth of flint and steel, the sun boy’s lips like ichor.”
― Grace Curley, The Light that Binds Us

“Boys... I hope you all just die.”
― Inio Asano, A Girl on the Shore

“I bitterly resent all that wasted time. And what I resent most of all is that the ones I did get never, never looked like the Greek statues.”
“The Greek-statue types may have been too busy going out with other boys to notice you.”
― Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

“I decide to be brave. Being brave isn't always about throwing your body on the line in footy clashes. Sometimes it's about letting your heart show in your face.”
― Ellie Marney, White Night

“It looked like girls were controlled by their feelings but the opposite was true. Girls had excellent control of their feelings. They spun them around like batons: Now I'm crying! Now I'm laughing! Who know what I'll do next! Not you! A boy's emotions were like baseball bats that blindsided them.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“Wave after wave, Ralph followed the rise and fall until something of the remoteness of the sea numbed his brain. Then gradually the almost infinite size of this water forced itself oh his attention. This was the divider, the barrier. On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue; but here, faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned, one was-”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“To heal, men and boys must learn to feel again.”
― Melia Keeton Digby, The Hero's Heart: A Coming of Age Circle for Boys

“When he ceased to embrace his inner child, he was no longer a man.”
― The Fly Garden, 2017 Facebook

“Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they’d die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren’t big enough to love more than one person like that.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke

“I’m man enough to know I shouldn’t let her do this shit to me, but enough of a boy to be completely turned on.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“Your pussy is a fruit that I wanna juice
Your pussy is a fruit that I wanna juice, yeah
Put the molly in the booty, girl, we turning up tonight
Cos that pussy is a smoothie it know how to do me right.”
― Brendan Lawley, Bonesland

“Our lives are forever changed because I was too much of a coward to really go for...to really..to really be who I wanted to be.”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter

“Look's like meat's back on the menu, boys!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

“Within My Power

By Forest E. Witcraft (1894 - 1967), a scholar, teacher, and Boy Scout Executive and first published in the October 1950 issue of Scouting magazine.

I am not a Very Important Man, as importance is commonly rated. I do not have great wealth, control a big business, or occupy a position of great honor or authority.

Yet I may someday mould destiny. For it is within my power to become the most important man in the world in the life of a boy. And every boy is a potential atom bomb in human history.

A humble citizen like myself might have been the Scoutmaster of a Troop in which an undersized unhappy Austrian lad by the name of Adolph might have found a joyous boyhood, full of the ideals of brotherhood, goodwill, and kindness. And the world would have been different.

A humble citizen like myself might have been the organizer of a Scout Troop in which a Russian boy called Joe might have learned the lessons of democratic cooperation.

These men would never have known that they had averted world tragedy, yet actually they would have been among the most important men who ever lived.

All about me are boys. They are the makers of history, the builders of tomorrow. If I can have some part in guiding them up the trails of Scouting, on to the high road of noble character and constructive citizenship, I may prove to be the most important man in their lives, the most important man in my community.

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different, because I was important in the life of a boy.”
― Forest Witcraft

“Being born a girl is not a shame, being born
with such cheap mindset is the real shame.”
― Garima Pradhan, A Girl That Had to be Strong

“It's the sting of knowing that exactly as the world starts expanding for most boys, it begins to shrink for [girls].”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“No, little boys are much wimpier than little girls.”
― Hiromi Kawakami

“Every day, boys receive one message about how to deal with emotions and that message is: don’t.”
― Melia Keeton Digby, The Hero's Heart: A Coming of Age Circle for Boys

“Boys are suffering, in the modern world. They are more disobedient—negatively—or more independent—positively—than girls, and they suffer for this, throughout their pre-university educational career. They are less agreeable (agreeableness being a personality trait associated with compassion, empathy and avoidance of conflict) and less susceptible to anxiety and depression,172 at least after both sexes hit puberty.173 Boys’ interests tilt towards things; girls’ Boys are suffering, in the modern world. They are more disobedient—negatively—or more independent—positively—than girls, and they suffer for this, throughout their pre-university educational career. They are less agreeable (agreeableness being a personality trait associated with compassion, empathy and avoidance of conflict) and less susceptible to anxiety and depression,172 at least after both sexes hit puberty.173 Boys’ interests tilt towards things; girls”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“You win some, you lose most. But you do win some.”
― Brendan Lawley, Bonesland

“On realising what has been said, for Jason, Adam might as well have bought out a gun. “No WAY man.” Jason yelps, before controlling himself. He nearly ends up wearing the meal for a hat, not forgetting earning some pretty hard glares – not that he seems to care. “Not everyone is as insane as you.” He continues in a hushed whisper, scooping onto his plate some very soggy and watery-looking peas. ”You can’t just go up to a girl and tell them that you like them, especially not Jen. That’s complete and utter madness. MADNESS. She’d flip...badly.” Jason concludes. “She’d flip…then she’d kill me with whatever was nearby and knowing Jen, that could be ANYTHING!”
― Adele Rose, Damned

“And if we were stuck here forever - and maybe this was just a naturally morbid thought for a teenage boy- I wondered who among us would die first and who ultimately would be left alone.”
― Andrew Smith

“Boys are rewarded for playing games where they line up by height and then run into walls. Perhaps I'm making that up--or perhaps you should do a Google search for "Guy Runs into Wall for Fun.”
― Gina Barreca, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times

“Our adolescent sons are eager to become heroes in our eyes, and in the eyes of the world.”
― Melia Keeton Digby