Pastoral Resources

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

Thank God for your mother.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.