Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or mother:
“Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)