I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.
Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of their lives. I know because I've looked into the eyes and the faces of grieving mothers.
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature
I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.
Nature doesn't give a damn for convenience, and never has.
L'architecture transforme un état de nature, en état de culture.
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.
A good river is nature's life work in song.
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
Behavioral science is not for sissies.
The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
