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
Throughout my boyhood my father impressed upon me the value of money. — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise. — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere, — Herbert Hoover 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
“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
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
“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
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve… — Herbert Hoover 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
I've always had that dream of coming on and playing for my boyhood club, and I am thankful I got to fulfil… — Reece James Copy Share Image
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a… — Herbert Hoover 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
“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
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
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
Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one… — Bobby Hull Copy Share Image
“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the… — Arundhati Roy 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
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
When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and… — Paul Auster 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
“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Now he haunts me seldom: some fierce umbilical is broken, I live with my own fragile hopes and sudden rising despair. Now… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience of being… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
The Bruins have become so much more to me than some boyhood fascination. — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
