City Boy

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or boy:

“He bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind. He represents continuous hard labor, year in, year out, and small gains. He is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches. He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.”
—Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)