“My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.”
Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
After the Gold Rush
Song lyrics, After the Gold Rush (1970)
“My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.”
Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
“Mother Nature doesn’t want power-tripping greedheads looking up her skirts.”
Rudy Rucker book Mathematicians in Love
Source: Mathematicians in Love (2006), Chapter 2, “Cone Shell Aliens” (p. 59)
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) American activist
Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), pp. 102-103
“Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.”
Richard Franck (1858–1938) German composer
Northern Memoirs, written in 1658 and published in 1694 along with another work by Franck, The Contemplative and Practical Angler
“May Morning, as the proverb runs, appear
Bearing glad tidings from his mother Night!”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 264–265 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)