"Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes……" — John Greenleaf Whittier

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• My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need… — Cleveland Abbe
• I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best… — John Lennon
• The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my… — Willie Morris
• Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else… — Richard Baxter
• Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and… — William Butler Yeats
• In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience… — Jim Elliot
• I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots… — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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