Boyhood Quotes

67 quotes by 61 authors

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local… — Cleveland Abbe
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is my wife. Who… — John Lennon
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him… — Willie Morris
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit… — Richard Baxter
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience of being in the Will… — Jim Elliot
I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants… — Keri Hulme
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise. — Gene Tunney
For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood. — James Payn
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to… — George Takei
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living… — Booth Tarkington
Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears,… — Charles Lamb
The boyhood dream has come true for Shawn Michaels — Vince McMahon
All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved. — Norman Wisdom
A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character… — J. G. Holland
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood — Chris Hadfield
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read. — Jorge Luis Borges

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