Pastoral Resources

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.