Boyhood Quote by John Amos Comenius

The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by…

— Bryan Procter

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central…

— Adrienne Rich

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of…

— William Cobbett

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

— Susie Orbach

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’…

— Anonymous

“A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he…

— Ron Suskind

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity…

— Booth Tarkington

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

— James Thurber

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we…

— Anonymous