Maternal Love Quotes

• Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss,
  Gives and receives all bliss,--
  fullest when most
  Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,
  Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God!
  O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink!

  Robert Pollok

  Spring, Numbers, Giving

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”

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• The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  Giving, Grows, Unloved

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers: A Novel”, p.308, Ballantine Books

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• Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Mom, Daughter, Baby

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• With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.

  Romain Gary

  Mother, Dog, Condolences

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

  Guillermo del Toro

  Spiritual, Might, Strongest

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• 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.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Animal, Research, Disease

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• If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  Daughter, Believe, Roots

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers: A Novel”, p.308, Ballantine Books

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