Quotes About Mother's Instinct

#1. She had known it was bad, call it a mother's instinct, but she'd known this was the knock that was going to scoop her insides out and leave her barely able to stand; merely a shell with nothing good inside anymore.

Andrew Barrett

#2. We hate those in power in Washington D.C. and anything bad that happens to them is good for us.

Tom Metzger

#3. She was so wicked. Such a classic case of resentment and ambivalence bumping and brushing up against all that maternal instinct. The love and hate in her was as vast as space- all meteors, no atmosphere.

Laura Kasischke

#4. What was he going to say? He doubted she'd want to hear about his favorite topic-which swords were best suited for different situations.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#5. I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

Edie Falco

#6. My comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in - my mother's British so I've always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I'm kind of predisposed to be the straight man.

Jason Bateman

#7. Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

Salma Hayek

#8. Welcome to the world of the nesting instinct, where Mother Nature turns pregnant women into frenzied cleaning machines ahead of the new arrival.

Mark Woods

#9. I'm always saying a mother never loses her peach pit instinct. Even with a grown son, you have to stop yourself from sticking out your hand when your child finishes a piece of fruit.

Joshua Henkin

#10. No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

Jane Austen

#11. I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

Erwin McManus

#12. There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this is part of America's new defense strategy to bore our enemies to death.

Jay Leno

#13. If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

Nancy Friday

#14. But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.

Eric Linklater

#15. It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple,

Walter Isaacson

#16. If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

Charlie Hunnam

#17. You'd like that,"
"maybe."
"There's no maybe. You would. Just like you liked it in the kitchen.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#18. I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

Sally Mann

#19. Two bulls fighting for the cow. And a bony one at that. But in America the loser oftentimes got the cow. Mother instinct? Better wallet? Longer dick? God knows what. ...

Charles Bukowski

#20. My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone ... from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

Audrey Hepburn

#21. Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

Arnold Bennett

#22. My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Jodi Picoult

#23. I think people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore.

Nancy Farmer

#24. I ask you ... to recognize that AIDS virus is not a political creature. It does not care whether you are Democrat or Republican; it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old.

Mary Fisher

#25. This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Thomas Moore

#26. Her mother, by showing her off all through childhood, had trained into her the instinct to defeat the expectations of others.

Stephen L. Carter

#27. It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K.

Dave Eggers

#28. At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived - it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

Deborah Blum

#29. What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.

Piers Anthony

#30. There is no conception more fallacious than the sense of cosiness implied by "Mother Nature". Each species must strive to survive, and that it will do, by every means in its power, however foul - unless the instinct to survive is weakened by conflict with another instinct.

John Wyndham

#31. When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but when a woman does that, when she destroys the life of her unborn child, then we have arrived at the limit. The level cannot go higher regarding evil.

Jim Caviezel

#32. Maybe there is no right thing to say. Maybe the right thing is just a myth, not really out there at all.

Nina LaCour

#33. The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.

Wilfrid Sheed

#34. Character makes its own destiny.

Rosa Campbell Praed

#35. Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.

Victor Hugo