Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small…

“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with science and…

— Mark Lawrence

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war…

— Rutger Bregman

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

— Peter Kropotkin

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

— Paul Dickson

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

— Adam Sandler

“Your life is a blank canvas,” her mother always told her. “It is what you make of it.”

— Bryan Mooney

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on…

— Johnny Cash

“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.”

— Susan Meissner

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life…

— Michael Lee-Chin

“as his mother told Grandma Marie, there are no words for some”

— Chris Abani

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

— Tanith Lee

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen

“It’s a choreography of sorts: some birds, her mother once told her, dance before they mate.”

— Dan Vyleta