Mother Rooney

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or rooney:

“[My mother told me:] “You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career.”... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)

“But off with your hat and three times three for Columbia’s
true-blue sons,
The men below who batter the foe—the men behind the guns!”
—John Jerome Rooney (1866–1934)