cute quotes and sayings about boys

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. ~Sloan Wilson



Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself. ~Corri Alius



A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. ~Holbrook Jackson



The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Robert Brault



When you knock, ask to see God - none of the servants. ~Henry David Thoreau



To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it. ~C.G. Jung



A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. ~Robert Herrick



Luck runs out but safety is good for life. ~Author Unknown



The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. ~Madeleine L'Engle



Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ~William Hazlitt



Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. ~Gaston Bachelard Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. ~Ben Hogan



A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. ~Thomas Jefferson



There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings



Sunday school: a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ~H.L. Mencken



I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? ~Leo Durocher



The tassel's worth the hassle! ~Author Unknown



God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. ~Timaeus of Locris