Quotes About Boyhood

And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over. But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist--or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

When I was a boy I was my father.

The longing and impatience of boyhood give way to the longing and discontent of manhood, and the future you anticipate is still just around the corner.

It seemed to us that his sadness was that of a boy, the voluptuous heedless melancholy of a boy who has still not come down to earth, and moves in the arid, solitary world of dreams.

Suddenly, it seemed to me an eternity since I had last seen Mam, and I cried. "What is wrong with the boy?" the monk asked. "It is his first day out," Dad fumbled. "Cheer up," the monk said to me. "You are becoming a man." "I am hungry," I told him. "That is one way of becoming a man," he concluded.