Quotes by Hal Boyle

“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesnt have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesnt want to go anywhere else.”

“Professors simply cant discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.”

“Does Grandpa love to babysit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctors or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.”

“I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. Ive got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.”

“We need not worry so much about what man descends from - its what he descends to that shames the human race.”

“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.”

“Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa? If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure dont see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. . . . He is the life of every party . . .”

Probably no one alive hasnt 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.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesnt have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesnt want to go anywhere else.