Maternal Quotes
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Maternal Quotes & Sayings
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The fact that mammalian crying serves as a cue for maternal support, rather than as a dinner bell, is a major evolutionary difference.
— Matthew D. Lieberman
Rose blanched but complied, earning laughter in return from Dimitri. Rose Hathaway, notorious rebel, showing her maternal side.
— Richelle Mead
The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.
— Gregory Maguire
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
— Chris Hardwick
My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.
— Elisabetta Canalis
O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!
— Edgar Lee Masters
For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.
— Elisabeth Badinter
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.
— Hasnat Khan
Children are sacred beings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.
— Rosemary Mahoney
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that can significantly alter the maternal and in utero environment, leading to complications. Optimizing
— T. Murphy Goodwin
It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.
— Vera Farmiga
I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
— Malaika Arora Khan
Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.
— Thomas Aquinas
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
— S.J Perelman
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
— Betty Rollin
Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.
— Dan Savage
I take on everybody's problems. I have a very maternal side. I'm basically a very normal, down-to-earth person.
— Shannen Doherty
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
— Mary Shelley
I've never been particularly maternal.
— Clare Balding
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
— Harry A. Blackmun
Mama' (literally, maternal uncle),
— Mahatma Gandhi
Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.
— Aporva Kala
I KNOW THAT I CAN'T SOLVE ALL THE MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGES IN THE WORLD BY MYSELF. I NEED AND WANT OTHERS TO JOIN ME.
— Christy Turlington
President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.
— Liya Kebede
The earliest and most dramatic changes in maternal physiology are cardiovascular. These changes improve fetal oxygenation and nutrition.
— Charles R.B. Beckmann
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
There's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I can be maternal with my friends.
— Audrey Tautou
Right ain't changed in all these years. From my maternal grandmother, Pearl C. Parker
— Deborah L. Parker
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.
— Donna VanLiere
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments. ~ Ananya Mehta — Kirtida Gautam
Now I know. If God himself stood before me and said, "Give me that child, that I might slaughter him," I would tell him, "BITE ME!
— Julie McGalliard
Got anything to eat?" I asked."You know where the gas station is," said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother. — Susan Juby
daughter?' 'She was a beautiful child.' Mrs Williams's eyes grew misty with the quasi-maternal feelings of a procuress.
— Ross Macdonald
The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.
— Jacques Attali
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
I'm a Cancer, which means I'm maternal and emotional. So in relationships I'm screwed.
— Lindsay Lohan
It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.
— Holland Taylor
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
— Leo Tolstoy
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
I had a maternal instinct once, it lasted 48 hours
— Sharon Law Tucker
The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.
— Bryant McGill
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.
— Charlotte Bronte
No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn't.
— Elizabeth Berg
I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.
— Ayelet Waldman
