Boy Named Sue

Famous quotes containing the words boy, named and/or sue:

    He said he couldn’t make the boy believe
    He could find water with a hazel prong—
    Which showed how much good school had ever done him.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peering through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, ‘Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.’
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Apart, we think we wish ourselves together,
    Yet sue for solitude upon our meetings....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)