Pastoral Resources

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

My parents separated when I was younger.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.

It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.