Famous quotes containing the words son and/or miles:
“A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter’s a daughter the rest of your life.”
—Unknown.
“We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)