Johnny Boy

Famous quotes containing the words johnny and/or boy:

    Frankie threw back her kimono, she took out her forty-four.
    Root-a-toot-toot, three times she shot, right through that hardwood
    door.
    —Unknown. Frankie and Johnny (l. 25–27)

    Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.
    Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)