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)
“Remember that every son had a mother
whose beloved son he was,
and every woman had a mother
whose beloved son she wasn’t.”
—Marge Piercy (20th century)