Wild Billy Childish

Famous quotes containing the words wild, billy and/or childish:

    “You mustn’t give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree. And then to the sky.”
    —George Axelrod (b. 1922)

    ““Although I’d lie lapped up in linen
    A deal I’d sweat and little earn
    If I should live as live the neighbours,”
    Cried the beggar, Billy Byrne....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)