Daughters

Famous quotes containing the word daughters:

    O these encounterers, so glib of tongue,
    That give a coasting welcome ere it comes,
    And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts
    To every ticklish reader! Set them down
    For sluttish spoils of opportunity
    And daughters of the game.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    For even daughters of the swan can share
    Something of every paddler’s heritage—
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
    My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
    Are gone from the house.
    My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite
    And night is night.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)