Hal Boyle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
-- Hal Boyle

#Memorable #Rivers #People
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
-- Hal Boyle

#Age #Different #Alive
Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
-- Hal Boyle

#Giving Up #Real #Hero
Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.
-- Hal Boyle

#Baby #Grandma #Golf
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
-- Hal Boyle

#Lectures #Habit #Professors
Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.
-- Hal Boyle

#Summer #Memories #Spring
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.
-- Hal Boyle

#Party #Simple #Purpose
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
-- Hal Boyle

#Life #Art #Ambition

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!â€ said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.
But I do enjoy wordsâ€”some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they representâ€”
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Hal Boyle famous quotes

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