Maternal Quotes

110 Maternal quotes by 96 unique authors

What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in… — Thomas Berry
It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part… — Kate Morton
The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed their… — Alice von Hildebrand
With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end.… — Romain Gary
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She… — Gail Sheehy
When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that’s when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal… — Rush Limbaugh
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help... — Edith Stein
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a… — Sophia Myles
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She… — Gail Sheehy
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was… — Aravind Adiga
The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal… — Elizabeth Blackwell
If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals,… — Walt Whitman
As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia.… — Jessica Valenti
Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White influence and culture,… — David Duke
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's… — Elizabeth Reaser
I can be maternal with my friends. — Audrey Tautou
It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now. — Holland Taylor
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs. — Elisabetta Canalis
I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time… — Natalie Dormer
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the… — Agnetha Faltskog
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of… — Felicity Huffman
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy

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