Pastoral Resources

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.