Pastoral Resources

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Both of my parents were musicians.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!"

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.