Playing for your boyhood team and going away, you realise…

I've always had that dream of coming on and playing for my boyhood club, and I am thankful I got to fulfil it.

— Reece James

Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.

— Prunella Scales

Whenever you feel alone and nobody is there for you. Talk to the most amazing person. Talk to yourself then you will realise what…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

This is my boyhood dream to play for England.

— Michail Antonio

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere,

— Herbert Hoover

Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“On the box he had a stack of magazines. Without seeing the covers, I knew they were pornography. Precious finds in the days before…

— James Hutchings

Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant,…

— Marjorie Garber

“Some might have referred to Vince, Buck and Calvin as "ordinary fellows" or "salt of the earth". Such terms are merely code for men…

— Julia Glass

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

— Saul Landau

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every object in…

— Leo Tolstoy

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

— Annie Dillard

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