Boyhood Quote by John Updike

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

One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far…

— Frank Leslie

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

— J. G. Holland

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

— Carol Ann Duffy

With every kid, there has just been a deepening of my humanity, because there's no more of a feet-on-the-ground moment than having a child.

— Ed Kowalczyk

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be…

— Sandra Scarr

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think…

— China Mieville

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded…

— Alan Cumming

Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more.

— Helen McCrory