Pastoral Resources

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless is mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.