Maternal Mortality

Famous quotes containing the words maternal and/or mortality:

    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)

    The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
    William Dean Howells (1837–1920)