Quotes about Maternal
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”
— 1 Kings 3:27
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
— Galatians 4:26
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
— Hillary Clinton
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.
— Edith Stein
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
— Toni Morrison
I don't care what she is. Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
— Toni Morrison
The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
— Maya Angelou
She existed in the Divine Mind as an Eternal Thought before there were any mothers. She is the Mother of mothers—she is the world's first love.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
— Robert Brault