Pastoral Resources

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.