Mother Earth

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or earth:

“If you could choose your parents,... we would rather have a mother who felt a sense of guilt—at any rate who felt responsible, and felt that if things went wrong it was probably her fault—we’d rather have that than a mother who immediately turned to an outside thing to explain everything, and said it was due to the thunderstorm last night or some quite outside phenomenon and didn’t take responsibility for anything.”
—D.W. Winnicott (20th century)

“I wish that everything on earth were just
As certain as the meals we’ve had. I wish
The meals we haven’t had were, anyway.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)