Boys Quote by William Wells Brown

My son has been called many names, accused of many horrible crimes. As a father, I've borne all the humiliation that my son has…

— Aditya Pancholi

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was…

— Lisa Lutz

My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been…

— Natasha Trethewey

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

— John Irving

For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

I can remember as a young boy, early teenage years, going with my dad, who's a pediatrician, when my dad would testify on behalf…

— Josh Shapiro

I was quite adamant that I will not change my name as it was given by my parents.

— Waheeda Rehman

My stepfather was mean to me and caused many an argument between my mother and myself. Once he even bawled me out for using…

— Jackie Coogan

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

— Elizabeth Edwards

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of…

— Lincoln Steffens

I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Micah Carter," I say, and he does look up, right at me, and his eyes are the same green-gray-brown that they always have been,…

— Amy Zhang