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
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
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
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
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
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
We never thought 'Boyhood' was ever gonna become Oscar-considered. Our shooting budget was $2.8m for 12 years. Altogether. I didn't know if… — Patricia Arquette 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
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
Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the… — H. Rider Haggard 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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 proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40. — Tina Fey 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
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist… — George William Russell 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
For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust. — George Stillman Hillard 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
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