Quotes for All
Mothers – especially single mothers – are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation’s children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families’ well-being. Evan Bayh
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 … Read more
My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. Felicity Jones
My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination. Felicity Jones
It’s like I’ve experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who’s a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It’s really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of … Read more
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length. Dirk Benedict
You know, unfortunately divorce it happens in Kansas as much as it does in Hollywood. And, you know, women having to start over at 40, you know, for the first time in their life having to find a career and being a single parent and having to date. You know, all of those things happen … Read more
I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn’t go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round. David Toop
I’d just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that; I was completely shattered. I had a book that I’d just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to … Read more
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. … Read more