“I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.” BornBoysChildhoodNew YorkRaisedBrooklynBrooklyn New York Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn’t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition.” WantMindLittlesAnimalBoysImagineChildhoodChangedGrewBecomingAmbitionImpressionJungleLittle BoysExplorersWild AnimalEarly Childhood Author:John Goddard
“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.” PeopleWellsLittlesCountryRememberRomanceUsedDiesPassionHalfBoysPovertyWonderfulSeaChildhoodIgnoranceMiseryUnhappyTreatedConfusedSuperstitionsAutobiographyLittle BoysEccentricityShabbyYeatsAnachronism Author:Randall Jarrell
“For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.” YearsHeartHas BeensBoysChildhoodArmsMy HeartDiedCornersMourningCyberpunk Book:A season in heaven: being the log of an expedition after that legendary beast, cosmic consciousness Source: A season in heaven: being the log of an expedition after that legendary beast, cosmic consciousness
“I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.” RealUsedHouseBoysStudyChildhoodMamaBible StudyChoirMischievousHappy ChildhoodMama's Boy Author:Woody Harrelson
“Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.” StoriesParentBoysChildhoodMetsPerformancesBoxesWideEnormousVarietySeatsOperaSheerOrphanPubertyMelodramaSopranos Author:Daniel Handler
“I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.” WantedBoysChildhoodFootballLuckyPairsBootsHappy Childhood Author:Martin Compston
“I really wanted to raise my boys in a place where 'celebrity' wasn't important, and where I could be closer to where I grew up (upstate NY). I love it here - it reminds me of my childhood. It seems more open minded and inclusive, and I love the seasons.” ImportantSeemsWantedBoysChildhoodGrewGrew UpSeasonsRaisesOpen MindOpen MindedMy Boys Author:Lauren Holly
“Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.” MayTwoHandsMotherChoicesGrowsLove IsBoysGrowing UpChildhoodConditionsPossibilityObjectsTaughtDegreesAttractionAnalysisForbiddenHis LoveNeuroticExhibitsTaught UsPsychoInhibitionsDevelopmentalRegression Book:Totem and Taboo Source: Totem and Taboo
“I don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood - kind of Lord of the Flies-y. So many weird things happened, funny things.” KindLordBoysHappenedChildhoodMissingHeavyThings HappenNeighborhoodFunny ThingsWeird ThingsWackyGood Neighbor Author:Justin Theroux
“I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.” WayBoysChildhoodRestrictionBicycle Author:Louise Erdrich