I constantly looked for motherly protection.

“People who constantly looked over their shoulders bumped into things. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is…

— Cecelia Ahern

I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not…

— Erich Fromm

Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the…

— William Wordsworth

Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered…

— St. Jerome

If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of…

— Lucy Larcom

Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Children, if you can’t be nice to each other, please don’t say anything at all,” Susan says in a motherly tone.”

— Tracy Lorraine

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us,…

— Michel de Montaigne

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of…

— Joseph C. Lincoln

And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with…

— Hermann Hesse

“She had that motherly no-bullshit way of using her hands as a second communication device and I always fell for it.”

— Devon Monk

When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These]…

— Matthieu Ricard

In today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence…

— Michel Odent