Pastoral Resources

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.