When I was a boy I was my father.

As an only child, particularly if you're a boy without a father, you have to work out for yourself who you're going to be.…

— Mark Strong

“Here one moment, in the great beyond the next. An eyeblink, and a boy becomes his father.”

— Hugh Howey

“There is more to a boy than what his mother sees. There is more to a boy then what his father dreams. Inside every…

— Ben Behunin

“because this is how it was with them: the boy’s father had dark skin, darker even than my own, and the boy’s mother was…

— Chris Cleave

“The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world—a desire that was still alive, despite…

— Paulo Coelho

“We came around the corner and stood in the doorway of what looked like a paint-testing ground. This was where we proved once and…

— Sylvia Harney

It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a…

— Sara Gilbert

“Kyle saw them as a double-pronged problem: the ship that would not heed his wishes because of a boy that would not be what…

— Robin Hobb

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love…

— Keith Miller

“THERE WAS ALWAYS a boy in your life that common sense and the prayers of parents told you to stay away from: fast talker,…

— A.J. Lape

My mother always wanted a boy. My father never did.

— Joe Penny

“Where the parents are not 'good enough' the rest of the programme for life may be distorted and later stages in the archetypal sequence…

— Anthony Stevens

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished…

— Manfred von Richthofen

Michael Jackson has a new baby boy; no word yet who the father is.

— Jay Leno

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young…

— Ziggy Marley