12 quotes
"A man can stand up to anything with a good weapon in his hands. Without it, he's but a dumb beast."
Johnny Tremain (1943)
"Just like the sun coming up yonder out of the sea, pushing rays of light ahead of it."
Johnny Tremain (1943)
Women have almost a genius for anticlimaxes.
O Genteel Lady! (1926)
Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for. A man can stand up.
Johnny Tremain (1943)
Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men—the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (1942)
He had never in all his life slept in a bed alone — much less a whole room.
Johnny Tremain (1943)
Human relations never seem to stand completely still. This apple, for instance. It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket.
Johnny Tremain (1943)
If he still were in England and were the man whom this girl loved, she would probably seek him out — women have almost a genius for anticlimaxes.
O Genteel Lady! (1926)
After that Johnny began to watch himself. For the first time he learned to think before he spoke.
Johnny Tremain (1943)
I knew he could learn — if he didn't get killed first. It was sink or swim for him — and happens he's swimming.
Johnny Tremain (1943)
"We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skills ... we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up."
Johnny Tremain (1943)
On rocky islands gulls woke.
Johnny Tremain (1943)