Maternal Death Quotes

#1. lifetime risk of maternal death is one thousand times higher in a poor country than in the West. That should be an international scandal. The gap, moreover, is getting wider.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#2. When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

Paul McCartney

#3. What mattered was they were never getting out.
He was safe.
That was what he thought then. Of course, he also thought he would never have a drink, not after seeing what it had done to his father.
Sometimes we just get it wrong.

Stephen King

#4. People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free.

Ilona Andrews

#5. Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip

Agatha Christie

#6. To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

Maya Angelou

#7. Mir astronaut Jerry Linenger writes in his memoir that he was surprised to find a bottle of cognac in one arm of his spacesuit and a bottle of whiskey in the other. (Linenger was the Frank Burns of space exploration:

Mary Roach

#8. That's the thing about Chinese mothers: hidden behind their maternal expectations and critical diatribes are women who will fight to the death for you. As soon as I called her Mama, Li-Ming would be my strongest ally for the only months I knew her.

Kaitlin Solimine

#9. I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are.

Jackson Guthy

#10. Whenever out on a leap of faith, things have never turned out as I had imagined, but in the long run, things have always turned out better. Faith is a powerful force and one that creates incredible blessings.

Bronnie Ware

#11. Be simple and sincere.

Sathya Sai Baba

#12. The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. This is now and forever - the moment everyone must have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now and after: all time.

Patti Callahan Henry

#14. Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

David Lloyd-Jones

#15. But now when I think about that night, I think about something my stepdad once said when my mom yelled at him for quitting AA. He just told her in this sad, quiet voice, Sometimes the sickest part of me just seems like the truest part.

Anna North

#16. Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

Octavio Paz