Fourth Son

Famous quotes containing the words fourth and/or son:

“All night I’ve held your hand,
as if you had
a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad—
its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye—
and dragged me home alive. . . .”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter’s a daughter the rest of your life.”
—Unknown.