Country Boy

Famous quotes containing the words country boy, country and/or boy:

    “The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”
    —Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)

    “A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,
    Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
    I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,
    Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
    A reminiscence sing.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)