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Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.
— Edith Stein
I don't care what she is. Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
— Toni Morrison
The Church is our mother, inasmuch as God has committed to her the kind office of bringing us up in the faith until we attain full age.
— John Calvin
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
— Bishop TD Jakes
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
She existed in the Divine Mind as an Eternal Thought before there were any mothers. She is the Mother of mothers—she is the world's first love.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
— Galatians 4:26
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
— Maya Angelou
Boobs are for breastfeeding.
— Anonymous
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin