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.

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

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

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Nature more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals especially in the more thoughtful men which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year or next year but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.