Pastoral Resources

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!