Mothers Of Boys Quotes

#1. Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities ... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.

Soledad O'Brien

#2. He's got the whole bad-boy-in-need-of-redemption thing going on, but the catch is, most bad boys don't want redemption. They like being bad. They like the power they get from striking fear and panic into the hearts of mothers everywhere

Becca Fitzpatrick

#3. (Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers' shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)

Jordan Sonnenblick

#4. Banks burn, boys die bullet-eyed, mothers scream realization the vast tonnage of napalm

Allen Ginsberg

#5. Encourage the women in your life - your friends, sisters, mothers, daughters - to insist on dignity and respect, to have faith in themselves, to be proud. Expect boys and men to be respectful, kind, and responsible, and don't settle for less.

Lundy Bancroft

#6. ... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Louisa May Alcott

#7. At conferences, black boys were assembled. At schools we were herded into auditoriums. At home, mothers summoned us to dinner tables, and there they delivered the news: Our time was short.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#8. Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

L.M. Montgomery

#9. Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, - that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

Louisa May Alcott

#10. Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.

Bryant McGill

#11. Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don't ever leave.

Shelly Crane

#12. Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Louisa May Alcott

#13. When mothers warn their daughters about all the cold nasty men out there who will only break their tender little hearts, I'm the one they've got in mind because I'm the one who broke their hearts when their mothers were warning them.

Nenia Campbell

#14. The boys wore black T-shirts, dark hoodies and permanent sneers and their hair was an open rebellion against society and interfering mothers. - Zombiekins

Kevin Bolger

#15. At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without knowing the cause, soon drowned the voices of both, with still louder lamentations of their own.

William Beckford

#16. The boys were going to a place that none had ever been before, to serve an order that had been the enemy of their kith and kin for thousands of years, yet Jon saw no tears, heard no wailing mothers. These are winter's people, [ ... ] tears freeze upon your cheeks where they come from.

George R R Martin

#17. And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace ...

Louisa May Alcott

#18. I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.

Shirley Jackson

#19. I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.

Adele

#20. One day you'll get to fly, Soph, just like Pan and Wendy. Fly away home to a better place where everything is brighter, boys are never lost, and mothers don't ever leave. But right now? Don't mourn me, she

Shelly Crane

#21. Boys come and go, but mothers are forever.

Nicola Yoon

#22. When daughters grow up, they become good friends to mothers but when young boys grow up, they become strangers.

Sudha Murty

#23. Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

Cynthia Rylant

#24. If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

Rick Riordan

#25. The boys he met at Annandale only understood one kind of woman. They needed to be coddled and cooed over as their own mothers had done their whole lives.

Thomm Quackenbush

#26. Boys are slobs ... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

Laura Schlessinger

#27. Boys belong to their mothers. Cord cut decades ago, but they'll always share the warm, dark swim.

Lauren Groff

#28. I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world ...

Louisa May Alcott

#29. The scientific study of the vital relationship between infants and their mothers was started by upper-class Englishmen who were torn from their families as young boys to be sent off to boarding schools, where they were raised in regimented same-sex settings.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#30. A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.

Pat Conroy

#31. Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

Desmond Tutu

#32. Now, I've had boys of my own, and I know boys aren't that way. They don't learn, or grow, or have manners when you're looking at them. But turn away, and turn back, and there they are, smarter, taller, and charming everyone but their own mothers.

Robin Hobb

#33. Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Camille Paglia

#34. Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers.
Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.

Habeeb Akande

#35. A sad sight to behold! Little boys of twelve years, prematurely old, sucking cigars! I felt that if I were their mothers I should whip them and send them to bed. Such children should be dealt with as

John R. Stilgoe

#36. I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But what I actually discovered confirmed my own common experience, that you also had little boys who loved their fathers and little girls who loved their mothers.

Arnaud Desplechin

#37. And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt