#boyhood

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

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#atlanta #boyhood #capital #decided #farewell

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

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