Maternal Quotes

As soon as you have one, all those dormant maternal instincts start popping out all over you, like German measles.

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels` tracks behind me in the snow.

Right now I`m still only 25 and I don`t think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

no maternal instincts whatsoever.

What`s most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation`s Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.

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

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

We`ve taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We`ve scored some victories in the sense that we`ve cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.