Pastoral Resources

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

I love both my parents dearly.

I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the idea unit.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.