A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood? — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Playing for your boyhood team and going away, you realise what you had and missed. — Andy Carroll Copy Share Image
“At least, I have not made my heart a heart of stone, Nor starved my boyhood of is goodly feast, Nor walked… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“And boyhood is a summer sun / Whose waning is the dreariest one-- / For all we live to know is known,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to… — Cliff Sloan Copy Share Image
“Throughout the whole time that Grandmama's body was in the house I was oppressed with the fear of death, for the corpse… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
During a recent interview, President Obama revealed that his favorite movie this year was 'Boyhood.' It makes sense. If there's one thing… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile: if the smile heightens the charm… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Many guys see relationships with women as a zero-sum game: If she wins, he loses. Marriage is the ultimate contest: Her job… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
“The echo of two boys playing in a pool testing each other to see who could hold their breath the longest. …… — Talon P.S Copy Share Image
“Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and… — R. M. Ballantyne Copy Share Image
There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had… — Alison Goodman Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
“There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause:--… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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