Pastoral Resources

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.