Pastoral Resources

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.