Famous quotes containing the words elder and/or son:
“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“Vigil strange I kept on the field one night;
When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
One look I but gave which your dear eyes return’d with a look I
shall never forget,
One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach’d up as you lay on the ground,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)