Pastoral Resources

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.