Sons

Famous quotes containing the word sons:

    “When sons grow up, they listen not to their fathers, nor do daughters to their mothers.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    ““My mother thinks us long away;
    ‘Tis time the field were mown.
    She had two sons at rising day,
    To-night she’ll be alone.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “has Nature shown
    her household books to you, daughter-in-law,
    that her sons never saw?”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)