Pastoral Resources

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.