Boyhood Quotes

67 Boyhood quotes by 61 unique authors

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last… — James Weldon Johnson
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have… — Herbert Hoover
Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood? — Baden Powell de Aquino
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the… — Robert Vaughn
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
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and… — Oscar Wilde
He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way… — P.G. Wodehouse
My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere, — Herbert Hoover
I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood. — Henry David Thoreau
The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy… — John Updike
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with… — George Orwell
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
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life… — P.G. Wodehouse
In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed. — George William Russell
For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the… — Carrie P Snow
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. — Dave Barry
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his… — Herbert Hoover
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him. — Sathya Sai Baba
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty… — J. B. Priestley

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