Boyhood Quotes

67 Boyhood quotes by 61 unique authors

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to… — Bobby Hull
We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the Depression years, when… — James Arness
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 black widow spiders… — Kary Mullis
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
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 was betrayed. — George William Russell
When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality . — R. A. Lafferty
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood… — T.E. Lawrence
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. — Jim Morrison
No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all… — Brian K. Vaughan
If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal… — Leon Uris
When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had… — Arundhati Roy
Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform. — Diane Setterfield
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with… — Oscar Wilde
There was a saying that the strength of a manâ€™s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a… — Alison Goodman
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and… — H. Rider Haggard
In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in… — Robert Bly
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in… — C.S. Lewis
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. — Henry David Thoreau

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61 authors contributed a total of 67 Boyhood Quotes, led by these top contributors: