A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers with unforced reality. It shows how an… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“Ever since boyhood, I’d feared wasting any happiness that came my way; I’d always wanted to save some of it for later.… — Sabbahatin Ali Copy Share Image
“of the purely sensuous instinct of boyhood had been transformed by the workings of the imagination, changed into something that seemed to… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day… — Mike Pence 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
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
“He's like one of those weird chappies in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — J. B. Priestley 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
“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
“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
“Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that… — Roman Payne 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
“You're not allowed to raise boys who reject all things feminine, then get upset when they become men who hate women.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood… — Chuck Klein Copy Share Image
The film 'Boyhood' won the Golden Globe for best drama. It follows one guy's journey over the course of 12 years -… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my… — Larry Watson Copy Share Image
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I… — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I don't want the child in me to die. Fortunately, I'm lucky enough that my profession allows me to pursue my boyhood… — Ajith Kumar Copy Share Image
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. — Saul Landau Copy Share Image
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
