Famous quotes containing the words adopted and/or son:
“It has been played once more. I think you exist only
To tease me into doing it, on your level, and then you aren’t there
Or have adopted a different attitude. And the poem
Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Oh my son’s my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter’s my daughter all her life.”
—Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887)