Boyhood Quote by R. A. Lafferty Download Open image “When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality .” — R. A. Lafferty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boyhood Boyhood Dreams Dream Dreams Dreams Outstripped Greatly Boyhood Inspirational Outstripped Reality Reality Travel
It was great to have my son see if you chase your dreams sometimes they become reality. — Taboo Copy Share Image
“Our children remind us, if we let them, that there are not only many types of dreams but many levels of dreaming, that we… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature,… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
“It’s nice to dream that we will have plenty of time in the future to do our travelling and that, one day, we will… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly. — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common. — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Strangers may not lodge complaints till they have been in residence here for ninety days," the Cacique said, "and no stranger has ever remained… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it.… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
There is a secret society of seven men that controls the finances of the world. This is known to everyone but the details are… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every object in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. — Saul Landau Copy Share Image
“Some might have referred to Vince, Buck and Calvin as "ordinary fellows" or "salt of the earth". Such terms are merely code for men… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant,… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
“On the box he had a stack of magazines. Without seeing the covers, I knew they were pornography. Precious finds in the days before… — James Hutchings Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere, — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
