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I`ve been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather`s farm where we didn`t know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

- Kary Mullis

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

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

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

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

- P.G. Wodehouse

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.

- Bobby Hull

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

- Bobby Hull

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

(Theft was common.) It`s the law of the playground, ... a journey back to boyhood, where if you wanted somebody`s sandwich you beat him up and took it.

- Arjun Narsingh

There is a crisis in boyhood in America today.

- Barry Carpenter