Matron Mama Morton

Famous quotes containing the words matron, mama and/or morton:

    “Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease,
    Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please;
    Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share,
    Go, look within, and ask if peace be there:
    If peace be his—that drooping weary sire,
    Of theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire,
    Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand
    Turns on the wretched hearth th’ expiring brand.”
    —George Crabbe (1754–1832)

    “My Mama has made bread
    and Grampaw has come
    and everybody is drunk
    and dancing in the kitchen”
    —Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)

    “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
    —Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904)