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Boyhood Quotes & Sayings

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I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is my wife. Who could ask for anything more? — John Lennon

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

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise. — Gene Tunney

The boyhood dream has come true for Shawn Michaels — Vince McMahon

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood. — Jimmy Cannon

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40. — Tina Fey

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

My Heart May Change Over Time (Boyhood->Manhood->Old) But The Love It Carries, Will Remain The Same ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

I never had any boyhood ambitions. — Daniel Craig

At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly. — Richard Linklater

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days. — Horace

One Life With Many Names, Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood And Old, Then? Then! All Unknown, Uncertain Destination ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove. — Jack Kerouac

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed. — George William Russell

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust,
The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust. — George Stillman Hillard

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved. — Norman Wisdom

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood? — Baden Powell De Aquino

When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality . — R.A. Lafferty

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. — Saul Landau

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse. — David Bennun

From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President. — Harold Holzer

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere, — Herbert Hoover

The bonds formed in boyhood can last a man for lifetime. — George R R Martin

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. — John Amos Comenius

For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood. — James Payn

We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore. — Richard Powers

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure. — Charles Dudley Warner

Count your years, and you will be ashamed to desire and pursue the same things you desired in your boyhood days. — Seneca.

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father. — Donald Miller

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform. — Diane Setterfield

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood. — Frank Rich

The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders. — Herbert Hoover

And boyhood is a summer sun / Whose waning is the dreariest one
/ For all we live to know is known, / And all we seek to keep hath flown
— Edgar Allan Poe

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. — Oliver Sacks

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard

Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others. — Ben Hecht

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone. — William Faulkner

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. — John Greenleaf Whittier

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood. — Henry David Thoreau

This is a boyhood dream, but I've always wanted to play the sheriff. I've wanted to be in a Western, in the hat, playing the sheriff. — Patrick Fabian

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood — Chris Hadfield

Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. — Dave Barry

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy? — Philip Roth

For to a boy it can seem
that he shall never have what he alone
has never had. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

The maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood. — Mary Renault