A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
-- Lewis B Hershey

A boy is a magical creature. You can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind.
-- Alan Beck

A boy is the only thing that God can use to make a man.
-- Author Unknown

A boy is Truth with dirt on it's face,
Beauty with a cut on its finger,
Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair,
and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
-- Author Unknown

A boy's best friend is his mother.
-- Joseph Stefano

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
-- Charles Dickens

A boy's will is the wind's will.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.
-- Anonymous

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
-- John B.S. Haldane

A small boy, mischievous to the imp degree.
-- Rea Murtha

A small son can charm himself into, and out of, most things.
-- Jenny de Vries

A treasure to a little boy does not consist of money, gems or jewellery. He will find far greater pleasure in the wonder of a rock, pebble, stick or beetle.
-- Author Unknown

Baseball is where boys practice being men and men practice being boys, and they get real good at it.
-- Mary Cecile Leary

Between the innocence of babyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature of a boy.
-- Author Unknown

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.-- G. K. Chesterton

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

Boys are God's way of telling you that your house is too neat!
-- Author Unknown

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
-- Cyril Connolly

Do not train boys to learning by force and harshness, but lead them by what amuses them, so that they may better discover the bent of their minds.
-- Plato

Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.
-- Lord Palmerston

Dreams really do come true. Ours came wrapped in Baby Blue!
-- Author Unknown

Experimentation is an active science.
-- Claude Bernard

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, And as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
-- Seneca

God created boys, full of spirit and fun to explore and conquer, to romp and run.
-- Author Unknown

He has the gift of reverie.
-- Anais Nin

He was born with a gift of laughter.
-- Rafael Sabatini

His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.
-- Joseph Lelyveld

I can sometimes resist temptation, but never mischief.
-- Joyce Rebeta-Burditt

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.
-- Maya Angelou

It's the merry-hearted boys that make the best men!
-- Irish proverb

Like the changing leaves of fall... My little boy is now a man.
-- Author Unknown

Mothers of little boys work from son up till son down!
-- Author 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," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."
--- Harmon Killebrew

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
-- Mark Twain

Nearly every man is a firm believer in heredity until his son makes a fool of himself.
-- Author Unknown

Nobody else like him, he's unique - - this one. How fortunate we are that he is our son.
-- Author Unknown

Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.
-- Francis De Sales

Of all the animals, the boy is most unmanageable.
-- Plato

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.
-- Author Unknown

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
-- Marc Brown

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.
-- Sophocles

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
-- David Everett

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.
-- George Edward Woodberry

There are 3 stages in a man's life: 'My Daddy can whip you Daddy.' 'Aw, Dad, you don't know anything.' 'My father used to say . . .'.
-- Dwight McSmith

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
-- Mark Twain

There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I’m louder about other stuff so it’s easy to miss that.
-- Brian Andreas

There never has been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between a mother and a son.
-- Author Unknown

To become a real boy you must prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish.
-- From "Pinnochio"

Twinkle Twinkle little star so you know how loved you are?
-- Author Unknown

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
-- Joseph Heller

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.
-- Brian Andreas

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.
-- Author Unknown

What if you had the same minute-by-minute thoughts as the super successful? Mike Brescia has developed the ultimate mental conditioning programs that can help anyone wipe out intense fears and enjoy huge successes in all areas of life. Find out more here.

Back to Scrapbooking Quotes
Return from Boy Quotes to Home

---