Top 1200 Maternal Instinct Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that role and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct. My initial instinct does lead me in a direction that I can trust.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

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.

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

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

My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.

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

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

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

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.

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

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

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

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

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

The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've been reading some philosophy - everybody seems to agree that the instinct and responsibility of all humans is to take care of themselves first. You have the right to self-defense. You have the right to survive, if you can.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

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

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

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

I've never been particularly maternal.

I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head...that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft... it's second nature.

I have no maternal instincts.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

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

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

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

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

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

Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

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

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

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

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.

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

It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

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

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

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

I try to follow my instinct as a moviegoer and I do the thing I would love to see it at a movie. I'm like everyone, almost, I go to a movie once a week. I like every kind of film if it’s well made. I’m fine. I’m not a specialist fighting for a genre of film. You just have to follow your instinct.

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

What I was doing when I was creating my werewolves is really basing them on a wild wolf pack, as much as possible. It's not as if being bitten brings you in, but what it does is that it strengthens that instinct for pack. It strengthens that instinct to need to be with others who are like you, and to form tight bonds, as an actual wolf pack does.

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

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

Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our relationship to that survival instinct by constantly asking ourselves, ‘How can I use my life’s energy to benefit all living beings?

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I can be maternal with my friends.

They teach you some things, but football is instinct sometimes. You just get the ball, and sometimes you dribble past three players and pass it; other times, you can shoot from far away. It's just instinct. If you feel something, just do it. I am free to do that.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

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

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