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 is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. — John Amos Comenius
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
CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY — Michael K. Williams
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. — Benjamin Disraeli
Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer. — Robert Ruark
Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others. — Lew Wallace
Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now — Alison McGhee
When I grow up I want to be a little boy. — Joseph Heller
So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season. — Sonia Sanchez
I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere. — Jeremy Piven
I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world. — Sophie Marceau
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. — John Betjeman
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh
Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform. — Diane Setterfield
All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved. — Norman Wisdom
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood. — Jimmy Cannon
The boyhood dream has come true for Shawn Michaels. — Vince McMahon
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise. — Gene Tunney
I never had any boyhood ambitions. — Daniel Craig
Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood? — Baden Powell de Aquino
For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood. — James Payn
My Boyhood Quotes
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more? — John Lennon
From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them. — Larry Watson
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more? — John Lennon
Childhood Quotes
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. — Maria Montessori
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better. — Magda Gerber
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up. — Chester Bennington
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! — Hunter S. Thompson
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. — Sam Ewing
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. — Friedrich Frobel
Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords. — Erik Erikson
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves. — J. B. Priestley
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
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood — Chris Hadfield
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. — Oliver Sacks
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
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
If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do. — Leon Uris
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
For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden. — C.P. Snow
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
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans. — Herbert Hoover
Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. — Alan Beck
One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys. — Dennis Rainey
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
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
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
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
Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken. — Charles Lamb
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
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements. — Jim Morrison
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard
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
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
André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But in “Boyhood,” Mr. Linklater's masterpiece, he both captures moments in time and relinquishes them as he moves from year to year. He isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty. — Manohla Dargis
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