Single Parent Quotes

• Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

  Bill Richardson

  Single Mom, Struggle, Opportunity

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• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Hovering, Inspirational Parenting

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.23, Penguin

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• The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

  Daniel Pearce

  Mom, Children, Heart

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• Single parenthood is hard, but it's simple too. You just do everything yourself.

  Amy Dickinson

  Simple, Parenthood, Hard

  "The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them". Book by Amy Dickinson, February 3, 2009.

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• Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular family type.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Two, Parent

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• Don't get involved with anyone who doesn't respect his mother.

  Mia Farrow

  Mother, Parent, Get Involved

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• To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.188, Booklassic

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• Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

  Rick Moranis

  Travel, Kids, Airports

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• Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

  Jody Watley

  Change, Passion, Mean

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• One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Freedom, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Mother, Children, Father

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• When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

  Amy Dickinson

  Lonely, Parent, Mothering

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• I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

  Arsenio Hall

  Jobs, Parent, Would Be

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• I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

  Jennie Finch

  Parent, Solo, I Can

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• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

  Garrison Keillor

  Family, Children, Single Mom

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.23, Penguin

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• I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent.

  Jill Scott

  Husband, Son, Grandparent

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• Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

  Moby

  Funny, Family, Father

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• My first love is my mother. She did so much for us as children as a single parent. I watched her make a dollar out of fifteen cents. I thought she was either a magician or she had God's actual phone number. She wasn't a motivational speaker; she was an inspirational speaker.

  Betty Wright

  Mother, Children, First Love

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• Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children, Kids, Discipline

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• Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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• Single parents, I testify that as you do your very best in the most difficult of human challenges, heaven will smile upon you. Truly you are not alone. Let the redemptive, loving power of Jesus Christ brighten your life now and fill you with the hope of eternal promise. Take courage. Have faith and hope. Consider the present with fortitude and look to the future with confidence.

  David S. Baxter

  Jesus, Parent, Heaven

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• You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.

  Sam Brownback

  Children, Moving, Numbers

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• organization is the religion of the single parent.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Organization, Parent

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  If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Mother, Children, Single Mom

  Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

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• I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

  Eminem

  Mother, Growing Up, Stupid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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