Boy Named Goo

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

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“The mighty river flowing dark and deep,
With ebb and flood from the remote sea-tides
Vague-sounding through the City’s sleepless sleep,
Is named the River of the Suicides;”
—James Thomson (1834–1882)

“Since I do miss your vaice an’ feace
In prayer at eventide,
I’ll pray wi’ woone said vaice vor greace
To goo where you do bide;”
—William Barnes (1801–1886)