When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are…

“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

“Then I thought about my boyhood dreams. Instead of bat in hand at home plate, I had what I now know is a much…

— Billy Graham

“Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did before.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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