Pastoral Resources

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

All children have creative power.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.