Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or gun:
“There was a young monk from Siberia
Whose morals were very inferior.
He did to a nun
What he shouldn’t have done
And now she’s a Mother Superior.”
—Anonymous.
“As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)