"Apron string" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Amyas; and know, with our old German forefathers, that, as Tacitus saith, Sera juvenum Venus, ideoque inexhausta pubertas. And not only that, Amyas; but trust me, that silly fashion of the French and Italians, to be hanging ever at some woman's apron string, so that no boy shall count himself a man unless he can vagghezziare le donne, whether maids or wives, alas! matters little; that fashion, I say, is little less hurtful to the soul than open sin; for by it are bred vanity and expense, envy and heart-burning, yea, hatred and ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... head. That night he hardly slept. He was in the throes of making a tremendous resolution, he who, for forty years, had been tied to his mother's apron string. Making it of his own volition, unprompted, at the behest of no one save, perhaps, the man in the car, asserting at last his manhood in defiance of the subjection that had never come home to him until that moment. He rose in the morning, ...
— Love, The Fiddler • Lloyd Osbourne
... to be rebuked in public, but she made no rejoinder. Jonas had seized on the opportunity to let his visitor see that he was not tied to his wife's apron string, but was absolute master in his own house. The blood mounted to Iver's brow, and he clenched his ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... not? They're human, an' I tell you when you hear a man brag that he never was lost, I know he never was far from his mother's apron string. Every one is bound to get lost, but the real woodsman gets out ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... see you make your own friends, Mark, and go your own way," he used to say; "it is as bad for a lad to be tied to his father's coattail as at his mother's apron string. Get fresh ideas and form your own opinions. It will do for you what a public school would have done; make you self ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty
... you-alls are tied to my apron string! Behave yourselves, chillun!" cried Alene, glancing ...
— Peggy-Alone • Mary Agnes Byrne
... him so dreadful bad, why didn't she keep him at home with her tied all the while to her apron string?" said the unfeeling woman. ...
— Lizzy Glenn - or, The Trials of a Seamstress • T. S. Arthur |
