Wilson Rawls Quotes

I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

I believe a boy can have anything in life that he wants once he starts working for it. The main thing is not to give up. It makes no difference how tough things get, just bow your back, keep working,...

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He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

I know, said Papa. It’s all right with me, but women are a little different than men. They worry more.

I don’t see how anything like that can keep a coon in a tree, I said. It’ll keep him there all right, Grandpa

I couldn't understand these town people. If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.

I SUPPOSE THERE’S A TIME IN PRACTICALLY EVERY YOUNG boy’s life when he’s affected by that wonderful disease of puppy love.

It was wonderful indeed how I could have heart-to-heart talks with my dogs and they always seemed to understand. Each question I asked was answered in their own doggish way.Although they couldn’t talk...

What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back...

HAD no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect

I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.

If a man’s word isn’t any good, he’s no good himself.

On my way home I didn't walk on the ground. I was way up in the clouds just skipping along.

What are all those people doing under the trees? I asked. Those are students, Grandpa said. They’re probably studying their lessons. They have their classes inside those buildings. That wouldn’t be a...

Women are a little different than men.

Son, that's a pretty hard question to answer. But I do believe that any wish you make can come true if you help the wish. I don't think that the Lord meant for our lives to be so simple and easy that...

I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid her head on his grave. I saw the trail where she had dragged hersel...

I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had gr...

I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with ti...

I said, Boy,