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“All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their virtues. They…

— James Freeman Clarke

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

“A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he…

— Ron Suskind

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming…

— Robertson Davies

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that…

— Sherwood Anderson

“He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This…

— Ron Suskind

An adolescent does not rebel against his parents. He rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on non-power…

— Thomas Gordon

“of the purely sensuous instinct of boyhood had been transformed by the workings of the imagination, changed into something that seemed to the lad…

— Oscar Wilde

Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms…

— Judy Chu

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

— C. S. Lewis

“Bold is thoroughly sincere in his patriotic endeavours to mend mankind, and there is something to be admired in the energy with which he…

— Anthony Trollope

My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?

— Cameron Bright