Country Boy

Famous quotes containing the words country and/or boy:

“No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

“A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)