One Life With Many Names, Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood And Old, Then? Then! All Unknown, Uncertain Destination….
—Muhammad Imran
he might have dealt tenderly at least with you. It is a hard, cruel nature which in youth can forget its first loves.
—Lew Wallace
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn’t raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things
—Laurie Lee
I talk. Jim runs. I tilt stones, Jim grabs the cold junk under the stones and -lickety-split! I climb hills. Jim yells off church steeples. I got a bank account. Jim’s got the hair on...
—Ray Bradbury
So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between...
—Sol Luckman
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...
—R.M. Ballantyne
How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you’d loved since you were a boy?
—Philip Roth
Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had ‘given’ their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had...
—Christopher Hitchens
At some point, you’re no longer growing up, you’re aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.
—Richard Linklater
They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.
—David Bennun
The echo of two boys playing in a pool testing each other to see who could hold their breath the longest.… Whadda ya wanna do now?— I know, we could wrestle like the Roman gladiators—...
—Talon P.S.
I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy’s notion of his father.
—Donald Miller
It is my joy to share with present and future generations these stories so full of humor, warmth, and adventure – and so rich in the rural culture of the early 1900’s.
—Linda Boynton
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