Pastoral Resources

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.