Pastoral Resources

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.