Famous quotes containing the words maternal and/or blood:
“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)
“No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)