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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. -- Booth Tarkington
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved. -- Norman Wisdom
For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood. -- James Payn
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise. -- Gene Tunney
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? -- Vincent Van Gogh
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
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people. -- George Takei
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. -- Cleveland Abbe
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy. -- Kary Mullis
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism. -- Robert Vaughn
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. -- James Weldon Johnson
Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle. -- Bobby Hull
In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed. -- George William Russell
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. -- Annie Dillard
Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. -- John Amos Comenius
My Heart May Change Over Time (Boyhood->Manhood->Old) But The Love It Carries, Will Remain The Same. -- Muhammad Imran Hasan
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
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood -- Chris Hadfield
No human 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
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
The film 'Boyhood' won the Golden Globe for best drama. It follows one guy's journey over the course of 12 years - or as Mitt Romney calls that, 'running for president.' -- Jimmy Fallon
During a recent interview, President Obama revealed that his favorite movie this year was 'Boyhood.' It makes sense. If there's one thing Obama can identify with, it's aging several years over the course of a couple of hours. -- Jimmy Fallon
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart. -- Willie Morris
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures. -- Richard Baxter
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life. -- Mark Twain
Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten. -- Charles Dickens
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. -- Oliver Sacks
I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters. -- Chuck Klein
Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements. -- Walter Dean Myers
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood. -- Barry Hannah
Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything from his boyhood diaries to college correspondence to every scrap of paper that came his way on the Supreme Court. -- Cliff Sloan
When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me. -- John Updike
Right now I'm living my boyhood dream, which was to play for a European club. The fact that it's a huge club like Barcelona makes it a tremendous honour. I like everything about the city: the climate, the people. It's quite similar to Brazil, which helps a lot. There's even a beach! -- Neymar
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic. -- John Updike
I never had any boyhood ambitions. -- Daniel Craig
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood. -- Jimmy Cannon
He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days. -- Horace
The boyhood dream has come true for Shawn Michaels -- Vince McMahon
Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood? -- Baden Powell de Aquino
Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform. -- Diane Setterfield
When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality . -- R. A. Lafferty
My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere, -- Herbert Hoover
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. -- Karl Kraus
To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone. -- William Faulkner
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. -- Saul Landau
I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. -- Jim Morrison
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
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
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
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
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him. -- Sathya Sai Baba
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
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
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed. -- George William Russell
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people." -- George Takei
He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns. -- Robert Penn Warren
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act. -- Booth Tarkington
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had. -- John Updike
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life. -- T. E. Lawrence

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