Pastoral Resources

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.

Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.