“The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Playing for your boyhood team and going away, you realise what you had and missed. — Andy Carroll Copy Share Image
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
This is a boyhood dream, but I've always wanted to play the sheriff. I've wanted to be in a Western, in the… — Patrick Fabian 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
Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full… — Mark Twain 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
I was thinking about that. I was thinking, this is like our Boyhood; this is like our getting together over 12 years… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are… — Cecil Frances Alexander Copy Share Image
I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more? — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They… — Willie Morris 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
One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“There are moments when the future looks so black that one is afraid to let one's thoughts dwell on it, refuses to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
