Pastoral Resources

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.