Pastoral Resources

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.