The boy is father to the man.
Boys Quotes
I like the boy. (Aussie TV personality, to Muhammad Ali in an introduction, this term was his catchphrase. Footage of this incident shows an irate Ali about to knock Newton’s block off. He, and most of the audience, had no idea why his hero Ali was offended or upset.)
Boys will be boys.
Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to ‘get on or get out’, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin […]
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
I was a fourteen-year-old boy for thirty years.
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that’s just one of the risks he takes.
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
