We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations they will struggle and snatch from each other and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

I plead for conservation of human culture which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature there's something wrong with you.

There can never be such a thing as a free market because it is human nature to cheat monopolize and buy off others so as to corner the market.

A civilized nation can have no enemies and one cannot draw a line across a map a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side and good friends live on the other.

To bare our souls is all we ask to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other celebrating our love.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows it flowers wilts and dies scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Mother Nature comes up against reality and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

There are no lines in nature only areas of colour one against another.