Top 128 Boyhood Quotes & Sayings

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.

When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.

The boyhood dream has come true for Shawn Michaels.

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

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

Arsenal are my boyhood club.

It was hard for me to leave because Everton were my boyhood club. I supported them from when I was a young kid.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

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.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

To come through the ranks and play for your boyhood club is a dream come true.

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

We never thought 'Boyhood' was ever gonna become Oscar-considered. Our shooting budget was $2.8m for 12 years. Altogether. I didn't know if anyone would see it or appreciate it.

Throughout my boyhood my father impressed upon me the value of money.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

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.

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

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

I never had any boyhood ambitions.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm living a boyhood dream.

I watch mainly fiction. The films I like watching are films where you see people change, like with Boyhood. You see a moment in someone's life where it's a breakthrough. For me, the breakthrough in Boyhood is that amazing moment right at the end when he finds somebody he can feel relaxed with, and who will maybe be a friend for the rest of his life. I like that it doesn't end in a love affair or marriage. It just ends in, "Wow, I found people I can relate to for the first people in my life. These people accept me, I like them."

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

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

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.

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.'

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

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.

I am delighted to be working with Guy Ritchie on 'King Arthur,' who's been a boyhood hero of mine ever since 'Lock, Stock' and 'Snatch.'

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

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

I don't want the child in me to die. Fortunately, I'm lucky enough that my profession allows me to pursue my boyhood fantasies even as an adult.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

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.

The Bruins have become so much more to me than some boyhood fascination.

No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.