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Quotes About Maternal

I've never been particularly maternal.
~ Clare Balding
I can be maternal with my friends.
~ Audrey Tautou
I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
~ Karen Armstrong
I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
~ Octavia Spencer
I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
~ Kaley Cuoco
I was always meant to be a mom. As soon as I had my kids, it just felt so natural.
~ Jessie James Decker
I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
~ Odette Annable
People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.
~ Craig Venter
If the Germans still have a fatherland, it survives mostly in the mother tongue; and if it is true that land comes from our father and language from our mother, then our maternal heritage has proven the stronger
~ Peter Schneider
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.
~ Phyllis McGinley
All my childhood memories are from Lucknow. My entire maternal side lives here, so every vacation, we used to come here by Shatabdi and spend days here visiting monuments, savouring delicacies, and being with family. For me, it's like second home.
~ Shweta Tripathi
As a Global Maternal Health Advocate, I get to travel the world quite a bit, meeting individuals and visiting programs with tremendous potential and incredible vision to improve the quality of life for countless others.
~ Christy Turlington
I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.
~ Demi Moore
Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.
~ Mary Beth Whitehead
No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal.
~ Megan Fox
Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.
~ Joseph Campbell
I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.
~ Elizabeth Rodriguez
I have connected with my family more because I have made a group in which I have added all my family members from my paternal and maternal side.
~ Sara Khan
Look down with maternal clemency, Most Blessed Virgin, upon all your children. Consider the anxiety of bishops who fear their flocks will be tormented by a terrible storm of evils. Heed the anguish of so many people, fathers and mothers of families who are uncertain about their future and beset by hardship and cares. (Christi Matri Rosarii)
~ Pope Paul VI
As a calf nudges the cow's udder to stimulate the flow of milk and maternal love, so Mahendra's rage prodded Rajalakshmi into expressing her stifled maternal affection.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
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 what it is.
~ Elizabeth Reaser
Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deaths, and children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not.
~ Christy Turlington
No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.
~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
~ Noel Coward