Maternal Family Quotes

#1. My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.

Rachel Holmes

#2. Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm.

Seth Godin

#3. Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Brett Ratner

#4. I know, although when looks meet
I tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone ...

William Butler Yeats

#5. Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Christopher Dawson

#6. More John Doe than Mike May. He played with this changing

Robert Kurson

#7. It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

Gary Hamel

#8. My family always says my voice is a gift - a precious jewel I inherited from my maternal grandma, Julia Kate Hudson. My sister and I used to joke that the 'Kates' in our family got all the talent.

Jennifer Hudson

#9. Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.

Aporva Kala

#11. Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

Todrick Hall

#12. The sphere of influence is noticed if your actions reflect the virtues of the kingdom

Sunday Adelaja

#13. My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

Steve Carell

#14. I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

Jim Fowler

#15. Rome, yes, I say, thinking in quick succession of the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the cardinals screwing around while wondering whether women have souls or not, and of Nero, of course, who killed his closest family and let the city burn. I don't reckon he liked people, either.

Erlend Loe

#16. You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Hillary Clinton

#17. My mother's parents, Bernard and Rivka Levine, were from Russia and also immigrated to New York City. My mother, Rose, was the elder of their two daughters. My maternal grandmother's family included several scholars and professionals.

Robert Lefkowitz

#18. To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

Erin Andrews

#19. I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely.

Eliza Lynn Linton

#20. Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

Liya Kebede

#21. Looking down at her fingernails, she also asked me had I not in my family a certain strange strain. I countered by inquiring whether she would still want to marry me if my father's maternal grandfather had been, say, a Turk.

Vladimir Nabokov

#22. I'm going because my life was crap until I met you. I'm going because I don't want to be here when you're not, still living with my mum and nothing being any different. I wouldn't even be thinking about going if it hadn't been for you.

Jenny Downham

#23. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Edward Steichen

#24. Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

Jessica Valenti

#25. The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.

Marcus Garvey