Pastoral Resources

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.