#boyhood

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

#barbed #barbed wire #behind #boyhood #camps

Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession... ↗

— R.M. Ballantyne

#child-training #courage #courage

When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know. ↗

— Ben Aaronovitch

#intergenerational-relations #life

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

#aspects #between #boyhood #catholicism #could

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

— Norman Wisdom

#ever #i #loved #wanted

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

#become #boyhood #men #must #our

My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square. ↗

— Horace Gregory

#floating #greek #harvard #islands #over

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

#boyhood #character #digging #fantasies #getting

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

— James Payn

#boyhood #i #i do #much #part

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 #decades #last #life #like