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Quotes About Maternal

Turning, she held her arms out to him in a maternal gesture. McKenna went to her at once, his black head lowering to her soft, round shoulder as he wept.
~ Lisa Kleypas
It was hardly a surprise to find St. Vincent here, since his family owned the club, and his maternal grandfather had been Ivo Jenner himself. In recent years, St. Vincent had taken over the management of the club from his father. By all accounts, he was doing an excellent job of it, with his customary cool and relaxed aplomb.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.
~ Lisa Kudrow
In that moment, Lara was more than simply a vampire of the White Court, a succubus, pale and deadly. She was a reminder of days gone by, when mankind paid homage to blood-soaked goddesses of war and death, revered the dark side of the protective maternal spirit, the savage core of the strength that still allowed tiny women to lift cars off of their children, or to turn upon their tormentors with newfound power.
~ Jim Butcher
My promise to my Kids: I am not your friend. I am your Mother. I will stalk you, flip out on you, lecture you, drive you insane, be your worst nightmare & hunt you down like a bloodhound when needed because I LOVE YOU! When you understand that, I will know you are a responsible adult. You will never find someone who loves, prays, cares and worries about you more than I do!
~ Unknown
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
~ Irish proverb
I once said: 'there is no such thing as an infant' meaning, of course, that wherever one finds an infant one finds maternal care, and without maternal care there would be no infant.
~ Unknown
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans, I say. Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers
~ Jodi Picoult
I think I'm naturally a mama at heart.
~ Topaz Page-Green
Real men take care of their mother's
~ Unknown
Serial murderers are frequently found to have unusual or unnatural relationships with their mothers.
~ Unknown
At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.
~ Lydia Davis
He had hired more mature women to negate any physical temptation, but, as a rule, they had been bossy, maternal, menopausal, and they had more doctors' appointments, as well as aches and pains to talk about and funerals to attend.
~ John Grisham
She felt if she ever had children she would love them no less when they were twenty than when they were two; they might need you more at twenty, she thought. What do you really need when you're two? In the hospital, the babies were the easiest patients. The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them.
~ John Irving
She hadn't ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Her son is poisonous, Everything he touches. With all her maternal effort she's brought destruction into the world.
~ John Updike
Our mothers live under our skin.
~ Unknown
She had chained herself to her place in society and the family through the maternal functions of her nature, and only chains thus strong could have bound her lot as a brood animal for the masculine civilizations of the world.
~ Margaret Sanger
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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 their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
~ Felicity Huffman
Women loved their babies from the second they pushed them into the world; they were programmed to love them, feed them, and protect them, no matter what.
~ Martina Cole
If being a decent soul is maternal, then fine. I'll call it human
~ Mary Beard
It comes naturally to want a man of your very own, to want babies of your own. You scoff at it, but it's as natural as breathing to a woman to want these things.
~ Mary Connealy
When I engaged in meditation on altruistic love and compassion, Tania noted that the cerebral networks activated were very different. In particular, the network linked to negative emotions and distress was not activated during meditation on compassion, while certain cerebral areas traditionally associated with positive emotions, with the feeling of affiliation and maternal love, for instance, were.
~ Matthieu Ricard