Mother Died

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or died:

    I stand on top
    of our back steps and breathe the rich air—
    a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail.
    She jabs her wedge-head in a cup
    of sour cream, drops her ostrich tail,
    and will not scare.
    Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    I tell the tale that I heard told.
    Mithridates, he died old.
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)