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Letter "B" » 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.»
Author: Booth Tarkington
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
boyhood, last decade, millennia, millennium, school term, school year, The Millennium, The school
«Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.»
«In the first stage of boyhood, he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge, when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that, he has to serve the Guru and obey him, without feeling burdened and bound. In the second stage of youth, he has to share with society the means and measures for its progress and security; he has to start earning for his livelihood and spending his income with intelligent care; he has also the duty of providing examples to those younger than himself and guide them into socially useful paths. At the same time, he must follow the footsteps of elders and learn from them lessons for his own advancement.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
advancement, boyhood, earning, footsteps, preceptor
«The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, eI was a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them. But I liked mathematics, and mathematics was suspect because it has n»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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boyhood, deep-seated, excitement, priggish, seated, shy, The Social
«GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine. Basing our computations upon data supplied by these statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as 1764.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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aver, Basing, Black Forest, boyhood, computation, computations, custody, data, drove, dwarfish, European, extinct, gnome, gnomes, imp, imps, inhabiting, Interior, miner, mineral, minerals, miners, mythologies, mythology, North, Party of, recently, scamper, scampering, southern, statements, supplied, Sweden, The Black, three parts, treasures, twilight
«I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
best friend, boyhood, Elvis, My best friend
«Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.»
«If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?»
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