...was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy. - Stephen Chbosky Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting. - Willa Cather The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls. - Black Elk He reaches over a goat that's come between us and grabs my hand. "Don't let go!" he...

She looked out then, through the crowd, and saw Simon with the Lightwoods, looking at her across the empty space that separated them. It was the same way that Jace had looked at her at the manor. It was the one thread that bound these two boys that she loved so much, she thought, their one commonality: They both believed in her even when she didn't believe in herself. - Cassandra Clare I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time. - Mario Batali I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead. - Alex Borstein The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath. - Ray Bradbury Lev looks at Risa, almost afraid to ask the obvious question. Finally he says, 'Uh...why d...

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys". - Harmon Killebrew Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board. - Kenny Rogers

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys. - Chastity Bono Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer! - Garth Brooks A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys. - Tom Hardy Don't interrupt,' one of the boys said. 'He'll lose his life.' Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots. - Diana Wynne Jones The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great com...

I'm never away from my boys for more than three days. - Pamela Anderson We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance. - Anita Baker If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people. - Evan Bayh How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration) - John Steinbeck Rambo was a Green Beret," Hannah said. "Please. We eat those army boys for breakfast. - Rachel Caine I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their...

There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a frog. Little boys love machines. Grown-up mean and women like to walk. - Edward Abbey Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two. There - that is it. That is the way good little boys and girls should do. I see one little girl who is looking out of the window - I am afraid she thinks I am out there somewhere - perhaps up in one of the trees making a speech to the little birds. [Applausive titter.] - Mark Twain Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men. - Krista Allen You shouldn't be too hard with little boys. You should treat them as precious, because that's what they are. James...

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expeced to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys - Terry Pratchett They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George. - Audrey Meadows As for the boys...vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matter what. - Martha Stout

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience. - Mark Twain But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away. - Mark Twain Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men. - Keith Ablow I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls. - Richard Dean Anderson There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hun...

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. - Cassandra Clare She'd been impressed by his looks at first--those sharply planed cheekbones and those black, fathomless eyes--but his affable, sympathetic personality grated on her now. She didn't like boys who looked as if they never got mad about anything. In Isabelle's world, rage equaled passion equaled a good time. - Cassandra Clare The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football. - Laurie Halse Anderson If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert's Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader. - ...

I'm getting a girlfriend soon," said Michael in a serious tone, and everyone laughed. "You've got plenty of time for that, kiddo," said his father. "No need to rush." "Well, I don't want a boyfriend, Daddy," said Madeline. "Boys are dirty, and they make a mess when they eat." "I'd imagine the six-year-old ones would." Xavier chuckled. "But don't worry, they get better at it. - Alexandra Adornetto You see, I never knew what I wanted to be -- I still don;t know. All I knew was that I was supposed to get married and have babies just like my mother did and my sisters did. I wanted to do that. I met your father and I was his wife, that is who I was. Then I had my children. And then I was a mother. That's who I was. A wife and a mother but I don't know if I was or if I am of any real value. You and the boys are all grown up, so what I am now? - Cecelia Ahern Isabelle: All the boys are gay. In this van, ...

Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?" His eyes flared yellow "Is that a challenge?" "Yes it is. - Ilona Andrews Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. - Ron Chernow And then there was the young male walk. At least women swung only their hips. Young men swung everything, from the shoulders down. You have to try to occupy a lot of space. It makes you look bigger, like a tomcat fluffing his tail. The boys tried to walk big in self-defense against all those other big boys out there. I'm bad, I'm fierce, I'm cool, I'd like a pint of shandy and me mam wants me home by nine. - Terry Pratchett I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other ...

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill. - Rose Byrne My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around. - Talib Kweli I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet. - Iggy Pop

Elli couldn't help it, she had to. She smiled before saying, "Nothing much, but Shea?" "Yeah?" he asked wearily as she smirked up at him. "I'll never break your heart. I'll never make you cry," she continued to sing the chorus of the well known Backstreet Boys song as Shea turned beet red with embarrassment. "Grace, I swear I'm going to kill you!" Shea yelled. - Toni Aleo If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys. - Geezer Butler The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever. - Paris Hilton I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model. - Brian Littrell They wanted to do a movie about the Backstreet Boys. - Ke...

Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it. - Davy Jones We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. - Christina Hoff Sommers

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally. - Elena Anaya I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys. - Meg Cabot Anyway, back to the kids." "Well, one is a girl who looks about your age, and there's a boy." She grinned as she stood. "He's a hottie." A tiny piece of egg caught in my throat. It was seriously gross to hear Mom talking about boys my age. "Hottie? Mom that's just weird. - Jennifer L Armentrout You know what they say about boys next door.. - Jennifer L Armentrout Contrary to what you might think, I don't spend every waking hour thinking about boys." "Just most waking hours? - Rick Riordan That's what I love about boys," Marion told him. "No matter what, you just go about your business. - John Irving I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wonde...