Top 231 Maternal Quotes & Sayings

South Carolina's lack of access to quality maternal health care is pervasive.

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.

Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

I've never been particularly maternal.

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken nights and nappy changes holds no appeal for me.

The maternal instinct is in me.

Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and my maternal grandfather was Greek. The next time I fill out one of those forms I am going to check 'Other' and write in the truth about my racial and cultural heritage: 'African-Greek-German-American.' And proud of it.

I can be maternal with my friends.

I was always very maternal with my friends. I wasn't the kind of little girl that played with dolls and pretended I was the mommy. I wasn't that child, so when I say I was always maternal, I don't mean in that sense - but I've always been a nurturer.

I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.

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. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other countries (black women are almost four times as likely to die as white women). The United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, yet our risk of dying or coming close to death during pregnancy or in childbirth remains unreasonably high.

Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

Intellectually, Stephen was a towering giant. Bodily, he was as helpless as a newborn. The functions I fulfilled were all maternal rather than marital.

I'm a Cancer, which means I'm maternal and emotional. So in relationships I'm screwed.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.

The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much more interested in maternal and pseudo-maternal love, so they were unimportant to me. I didn't even notice the lack of men in the story until I finished it. But once I did notice it, I was kind of delighted. Apparently, my subconscious is totally sexist.

Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.

I have no maternal instincts.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

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.

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

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.

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.