Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years… — Bryan Procter 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
We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss… — Richard Corliss 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
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
I'm reliving every boyhood dream I ever had. I could pretty much die and go to heaven right now. A little part… — Hugh Jackman 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
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
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
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
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
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
Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is… — Marjorie Garber 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
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
“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
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so… — James Weldon Johnson 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
“Throughout the whole time that Grandmama's body was in the house I was oppressed with the fear of death, for the corpse… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
