Maternal Parent

Famous quotes containing the words maternal and/or parent:

    “Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined.”
    —John Abbott. The Mother at Home; or the Principles of Maternal Duty, John Abbott, Crocker and Brewster (1833)

    “My father’s father, his father’s father, his—
    Shadows like winds

    Go back to a parent before thought, before speech,
    At the head of the past.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)