If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Throughout my boyhood my father impressed upon me the value of money. — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise. — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
Playing for your boyhood team and going away, you realise what you had and missed. — Andy Carroll 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
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
A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the… — T. E. Lawrence 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
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements. — Jim Morrison 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
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the… — James Arness 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
Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless… — John Constable 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
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
“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
“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
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