 | Burr S. Stottle - 1916 - 228 lapas
...he drew her down upon the arm of his chair. "You know the old saying, Hazel, that you can take a man out of the country but you can't take the country out of a man, and I guess that is true of your old uncle. So you need have no fear that I shall not enjoy... | |
 | Ruth Cross - 1924 - 362 lapas
...other things that she was still a very crude and ignorant little country girl. "You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl," Stephen reminded her teasingly one night when he had corrected her pronunciation of the word... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works - 1960 - 180 lapas
...Sincerely, JF DUFFY. ~ FORT PIEKRE, S. DAK., May H, 1960. DEAR SENATOR CASE : As someone once said "Yon can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy." This truly expresses the feeling we had about our ranch operations before they were disrupted by the Oake... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1963 - 416 lapas
...problem. We believe that there are two main reasons why it is difficult to secure doctors for these rural areas. One is cultural background — the other...truth which we believe the committee should consider and which is borne out in statistical evidence. From the Journal of Medical Education we find that... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1963 - 344 lapas
...is money. I jet us consider the first reason. There is an old saying that you can fake (lie boy put of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy. Ibis old saying has a kernel of truth which we believe the committee should consider and which is borne... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works - 1967 - 36 lapas
...who was born and reared in small town in Ohio, Norwalk, have always like the saying, "You can take a boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy." I recall an occurrence in Westerville, I think it was in 1932 or 1934, when I was a candidate for Congressman... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1969 - 988 lapas
...Recently, cityscapes have also made an appearance. City dwellers are reminded that "you can take Salem out of the country but you can't take the country out of Salem." All the romance, joy and beauty of springtime are inextricably bound up in each puff of Salem... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce - 1969 - 206 lapas
...couple of the Salem commercial, where they can hear the misleading but catchy words: "you can take Salem out of the country, but . . . you can't take the country out of Salem". To these girls and to all other young and adolescent people it cannot be clear that something... | |
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You can take the BOY out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy Chiefly known in North America, where it has generated a limitless variety of humorous by-forms (see quots.). 
