Boy Named Charlie

Famous quotes containing the words boy, named and/or charlie:

    ““How old is she, Billy boy, Billy boy?
    How old is she, charming Billy?”
    Past six, past seven,
    Past twenty and eleven,
    She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.””
    —Unknown. Billy Boy (l. 21–25)

    “We named you Joy.
    I, who was never quite sure
    about being a girl, needed another
    life, another image to remind me.
    And this was my worst guilt; you could not cure
    nor soothe it. I made you to find me.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “After the first couple of months, she and Charlie didn’t see much of each other except at breakfast. It was a marriage just like any other marriage.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)