Single Mom Quotes - Page 5

• If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, World, Way

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• On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Buddhism, Suffering, Waste

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• 'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children

  Andrea O'Reilly

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.

  Sheryl Crow

  Mom, Pride, Boys

  "Sheryl Crow: My Sons 'Keep Me Young'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. September 30, 2013.

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• Life is nothing but an opportunity for love to blossom. If you are alive, the opportunity is there - even to the last breath. You may have missed your whole life: just the last breath, the last moment on the earth, if you can be love, you have not missed anything - because a single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Opportunity, Alive

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• Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

  Paula White

  Christian, Mom, Religious

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• I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.

  Kate Hudson

  Mom, Mother, Mean

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• Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life. Once you have tasted a single moment of no-thought, you have taken a great leap into truth; then things will become more and more easy every day.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

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• The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Practice, Pieces, Moments

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• Every single moment is a coincidence.

  Douglas Coupland

  Destiny, Coincidence, Moments

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• At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

  Oscar Wilde

  Destiny, Moments, Has Beens

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.109, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Thinking, Feelings

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• A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.

  Robert Breault

  Mother, Love Is, Parent

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• America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a black preacher rises to his or her craft at the height of his or her ambition and the desire to tell America the truth.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Ambition, America, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Smart, School

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• What I remember thinking at that point, having gone through both the ups and downs of my first four years, and seeing the sea of people was, "What a remarkable country this is and how lucky am I that we live in a place where the son of a single mom, not born into any kind of fame or fortune, in a pretty remote state somehow can end up be in a position to - to make a difference."

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Country, Son

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I was all of these women. I've been a young mom; I've been a divorcée; I've been a single mom. I've been the working mom versus the nonworking mom.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mom, Young, Versus

  Source: www.elle.com

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• An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.

  Charles Schumer

  Mom, Struggle, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Mom, Father, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Mom, Children, Emotional

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• You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Mother, Thinking

  "Charlize Theron Talks Adopting & Single Motherhood", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'

  Charlize Theron

  Beautiful, Mom, Dog

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• President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

  Tom Vilsack

  Mom, Fighting, Kansas

  Tom Vilsack's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

  will.i.am

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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