Younger Sons

Famous quotes containing the words younger and/or sons:

    “‘Tis our fast intent
    To shake all cares and business from our age,
    Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
    Unburdened crawl toward death.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “and of my distrusting self
    white-doctor-who-breathed-for-him-all-night
    say it for two sons gone,
    say nightmare, say it loud
    panebreaking heartmadness:
    nightmare begins responsibility.”
    —Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)