Fathers

Famous quotes containing the word fathers:

    “The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones
    And fenced their gardens with the Redman’s bones;”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “This last pain for the damned the Fathers found:
    “They knew the bliss with which they were not crowned.””
    —William Empson (1906–1984)