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Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board. -- Kenny Rogers
We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls. -- Gloria Steinem
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 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
I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school. -- Desmond Dekker
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship. -- Sadie Jones
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. -- Robert Jay Lifton
I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine. -- Liam Neeson
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me. -- Cheech Marin
You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy. -- Terry Bradshaw
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember. -- Neil Armstrong
The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys. -- Jay Baruchel
Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy. -- Wolfgang Puck
My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She's the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I'm 100% a momma's boy! -- Brody Jenner
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk. -- Jools Holland
Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student. -- Nicholas Kristof
I raised two sons, and I know that even though they're bigger and stronger than I am, they're still little boys inside. They still cry, they still hurt. So whenever I write a male character, no matter how 'heroic' he may be, I think of my sons. And I remember that every man was once a little boy. -- Tess Gerritsen
It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves. -- Randeep Hooda
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. -- Andrea Dworkin
I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy. -- Robert Jordan

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