58 Quotes by Wilson Rawls

Grandpa,” I asked, “what good’s it going to do us, knowing his name?” “It might do a lot of good,” Grandpa said. “This trainer says that if you could make friends with that monkey he would probably do anything you wanted him to do.” “Make friends with him!” I said. “Grandpa, I don’t.

Samie was one of those nosy kind of cats. He would lie up on the red oak limbs and watch every move I made.

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

The bigger they are the harder they fall.

I remembered something my grandfather had told me. He said, “Never underestimate the cunning of an old river coon. When the nights are dark and the ground is frozen and slick, they can pull some mean tricks on a hound. Sometimes the tricks can be fatal.

It’s hard for a man to stand and watch an old hound fight against such odds, especially if that man has memories in his heart like I had in mine. I had seen the time when an old hound like that had given his life so that I might life.

It was then I realized it was all too perfect.

That time I saw tears in her eyes. It made me feel all empty inside and I cried a little, too. By the time she was through kissing me and talking to me, I was sure I didn’t need any dogs at all. I couldn’t stand to see Mama cry.

If there were any wild hogs around, he could scare the daylights out of them with his deep voice.