Famous quotes containing the words natural and/or son:
“The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“My son and daughter tell me where they are in very different ways. I know where my son is because I hear him. I know where my daughter is because she tells me.”
—Anonymous Father. Raising a Daughter by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium, ch. 1 (1994)