Quotes About Being A Single Parent

#1. The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

Larry David

#2. 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

#3. being a doctor was a snap compared to being a single parent.

Kristin Hannah

#4. Being a single parent on a part-time basis is tricky to navigate. That is what a racing widow has to do.

Aly Grady

#5. I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author.

Bill Maher

#6. 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

#7. I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

Reese Witherspoon

#8. People have to find ways of explaining the work.

Andres Serrano

#9. America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

Matt Taibbi

#10. 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 other things.

Fefe Dobson

#11. For the time being, it need only be said that the philosopher in question made much of human existence as a tragedy that need not have been were it not for the intervention in our lives of a single, calamitous event: the evolution of consciousness - parent of all horrors.

Thomas Ligotti

#12. Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious of your consumption, what goes in and out, will help cut down on wastefulness.

Joy Bryant

#13. Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.

Anita Silvey

#14. She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing "single" about a single mom.

Mandy Hale

#15. Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

Russell Crowe

#16. How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

Neal Stephenson

#17. 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

#18. We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.

Alan Chalmers

#19. I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my parents panic a little. The best thing about living alone is being able to have my friends come over whenever.

Vanessa Hudgens

#20. How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.

James Hillman

#21. If you live by the same values and priorities [Jesus] had, you will find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a life-style and not a project.

Rebecca Pippert

#22. I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

Cherie Lunghi

#23. ...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#24. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

Alden Ehrenreich

#25. Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

Eva Hart

#26. They were so intimate and utterly out of touch.

D.H. Lawrence

#27. For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

LeBron James

#28. Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.

Mike Myers