British Mothers

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or mothers:

    “All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it’s your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”
    —June Jordan (b. 1939)

    “oh mothers you will have made the little tykes
    so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies
    they won’t know the difference
    and if somebody does it’ll be sheer gravy”
    —Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)