City Boy

Famous quotes containing the words city and/or boy:

“When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.

“O, pluck was he to the backbone and clear grit through and through;
Boasted and bragged like a trooper; but the big words wouldn’t do;
The boy was dying, sir, dying, as plain as plain could be,
Worn out by his ride with Morgan up from the Tennessee.”
—Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894)