Best towns & boys Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.”

Littles Made Girl House Poor Boys Sun Streets Towns Meetings Christmas Giants Toys Hunts Boy And Girl Stockings

Book:A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay

Source: A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay

“I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.”

Trying Has Beens Country Reason Humor Bigs Funny Boys Eating Towns Agriculture Country Boy

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.”

Stills Might Action White Boys Grew Grew Up Towns Stores Texas Southern Groceries Affirmative Action Affirmative Grocery Stores

Author:Bill Moyers

“You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.”

“From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.”

Wells Made Hands Kids Age Known Boys Crime Six Gun Towns Surprise West Size Spread East Pockets Legends Daring Virginia Colorado Vests East And West Rio West Virginia Colts Wheeling

Author:Billy Joel

“You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have to go off somewhere and figure yourself out.”

Boys Forever Figures Gun Towns Golden There Comes A Time Golden Boy

Author:George Carlin

“A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.”

Knows Poor Boys Comfortable Towns Small Town Missouri

Book:Autobiographical Writings

Source: Autobiographical Writings

“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school”

Should Children School Girl Poor Powerful Cities Boys Rich Towns Noble Village Rich And Poor Boy And Girl Ignoble Active Minds Cities And Towns

Author:John Amos Comenius

“Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.”

Men Joy Boys Objects Pure Logic Optimism Towns Every Man Maids Pure Joy Choppers

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.”

Thinking Men Different Happens School Young Father Parent Boys Grew Grew Up Theater Towns Eight Young Man Sibling My Siblings Theater Family

Author:John Lithgow

“I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."”

People Bigs Faces Attitude Boys Seeing Grew Grew Up Towns Bores Time Of My Life Bores You Old Places

Author:Johnny Carson

“Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It's right off Lake Jessup.Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in the United States and I live literally 5/10ths of a mile north of that lake right off the swamp down here. I've lived here since '94. When I left Nebraska my dad got a job at a private Christian school in West Palm Beach. People will say "You're not really a country boy. You're from Palm Beach, Florida." Well, I moved to West Palm Beach, FL which is a far cry from Palm Beach, FL. There's a reason it's called West Palm Beach.”

“There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone off in boys' clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers, and several have got through, since the medical examination is only a negligible formality required in one place, forgotten in another.”

War Running School Girl Boys Gone Clothes Towns Forgotten Medical Russia Running Away Volunteer Examination Great War Formality

Book:Russia in 1916

Source: Russia in 1916

“It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.”

Boys New York Tough Towns Scar Minors Scratches Bruises Fickle

Author:Reggie Jackson

“The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men and women, boys and girls, in the sex industry. That is the most horrific, horrific thing that's happening and it's happening in all of our towns here in Los Angeles, in New York, in London, in Paris, all over the world, and I think that's really what has to be addressed.”

“My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.”

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Author:Blake Bailey

“There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.”

Fall Boys Expression Horse Towns Get Back Bad Boy Falling Off

Author:Brock Lesnar

“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school. Education is indeed necessary for all, and this is evident if we consider the different degrees of ability. No one doubts that those who are stupid need instruction, that they may shake off their natural dullness. But in reality those who are clever need it far more, since an active mind, if not occupied with useful things, will busy itself with what is useless, curious, and pernicious.”

“There was a period of time between 2005 and 2008 that was pretty challenging. I had taken a leap of faith and moved to Los Angeles from New York, which had been incredible to me professionally. I couldn't get arrested in this town. There was a lot of doubt and fear that crept in, and boy, did insecurity stick her foot up in it. There were many obstacles that were overcome during that very dark period - creative, financial, emotional, and spiritual - and I'm here, standing, stronger than ever.”

“[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

“I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.”

Different Country Matter Age Names Boys Fields Son Grew Mom Dad Grew Up Built Towns Raised My Mom My Son Southern Grandfather Small Town Corn My Grandfather Backyards Indiana Mom And Dad

Author:Mike Pence

“I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research. I didn't know the towns my mother and father came from in Russia. I didn't know the name of the clothing store I went to work for when I was 11 years old. I didn't know a lot of things. So I called for my FBI files, not expecting to have that stuff there, but I wanted to know what they had on me.But they did have the towns my mother and father lived in in Russia. They had the grocery store I worked in when I was 11 years old.”

Knows Writing Years Wanted Mother Father Names Stuff Boys Research Towns Stores Russia Holes Clothings Expecting Boston Files Fbi Groceries Mother And Father Grocery Stores

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.”

Night Accepting Boys Sacrifice Team Football Towns Offering Goddess Captains Saturday Competing Destined Collecting Saturday Night Football Team Inspirational Team Prom Excursions

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.”

Stills Country Girl Grows Forget Boys Growing Up Growing Summer Towns Elders Boy And Girl

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“Yes, he’s a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he’s on the honor roll. Captain of the football team. All-around psycho serial killer who hides bodies in the fridge whenever his parents go out of town. (Nick) I also eat babies for breakfast and torture small animals for fun. My therapist says I’m making real progress though. (Caleb)”

“So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind. Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry)”

“And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.”

Way Stills Dream Bigs Wanted Girl Fun White Boys Towns Supposed To Be Limitation Indian Small Town White Girl

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.”

Art Father House Given Common Boys Virtue Grace Survival Towns Brown Goods Overwhelming Laziness Rats Our Father Moths Sparrows Zest Coyotes Mack

Book:Novels, 1942-1952

Source: Novels, 1942-1952

“I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down. - Sleeping to Dream”

Littles Feelings Dream Fall Next Lost Sleep Boys Towns Brands Sheep Ashes Falling Down Counting Little Boys Brand New

Author:Jason Mraz

“A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.”

Whole Seems Moving Animal Emotion Boys Mystery Feet News Towns Shoulders Nervous Faster Fence Nervous System

Book:The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The whole town’s talking about the way Jax Stone sat in your hospital room and snag to you until you came out of your coma. Then he apparently wouldn’t leave you alone for a minute. The boy sounds hooked.”

Way Whole Sound Rooms Talking Boys Minutes Stones Towns Sat Hospitals Hooked Coma

Author:Abbi Glines

“Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.”

Girl Boys Towns Shirts Candle Shirt Off

Book:The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut

Source: The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut

“I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.”

Knows Want Looks Kind Used Grows Boys Growing Up Hair Jokes Towns Heels Trash Skirts High Heels Prettiest Momma Tramps Hair Up

Author:Dolly Parton

“A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Country Shows Mother Boys Saws Fronts Son Dad Sitting Towns Motherhood Awful Quarters Tickets

Author:Art Linkletter

“Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay, And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill, While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will, "Polly!-Polly!- The cows are in the corn! Oh, where's Polly?"”

Men Mind Mother Father Boys Gone Doors He Man Calling Summer Towns Kitchen Cows Hollow Corn July Mills Robins Jamie Hay Whistling

Book:Lyrics

Source: Lyrics

“High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and wear them on your first day. If anyone asks how you could afford them say that your father is the president of Ashton Kutcher. When they are like, 'Ashton Kutcher has a president?' answer, 'Yes.' Everyone will be in awe of you and you won't have to go through a lot of pain and cat fights.”

“That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.”

Men Able School Poor Boys Rich Towns Forgiving Clubs Rich Man Being Rich Princeton Poor Boy

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters

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