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.

“and of my distrusting self
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say it for two sons gone,
say nightmare, say it loud
panebreaking heartmadness:
nightmare begins responsibility.”
—Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)

“Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.”
—Isaac Watts (1674–1748)