“A little boy is the only thing God can use to make a man.”
–Unknown
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," my dad would reply, "we’re raising boys."
–Harmon Killebrew
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout, “Bang!”
— George F. Will, news commentator
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.”
— James Thurber, writer
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.
– Washington Irving , writer
“If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.”
— Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys and other books in a 1998 interview with Newsweek magazine.
