Quotes Tagged With :boyhood

I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when....

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only....

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were....

The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts....

Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or more....

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion....

Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description,....

Look at what I wrote at the beginning of this memoir. Have I caught anything at all of the extraordinary....

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

Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood....