Country Boy

Famous quotes containing the words country and/or boy:

“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

““Avay with melincholly, as the little boy said ven his school-missis died.’”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)