44 Quotes About Boyhood

  • Author John Flaherty
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    I started my career with the Red Sox and proceeded to live out my boyhood dreams in Major League Baseball. Thank you to all of my teammates, coaches, managers and fans for making the ride so much fun.

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  • Author W. Hull
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    To play in the National Hockey League as a red blooded American kid... a Canadian kid, we all dreamed about it and I made a boyhood dream come true.

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  • Author Walter Dean Myers
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    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.

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  • Author Bertrand Russell
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    The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, eI was a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them. But I liked mathematics, and mathematics was suspect because it has n

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  • Author Cliff Sloan
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    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.

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  • Author Booth Tarkington
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    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.

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