Pastoral Resources

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys'.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

She was a genius, my mother.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.