My Boyhood Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
— Norman Wisdom
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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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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
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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
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My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere,
— Herbert Hoover
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I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a…
— Chuck Klein
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My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square.
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These My Boyhood Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 My Boyhood Quotes as follows: