Pastoral Resources

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Fear is the mother of morality.

What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.