Single Mum Quotes

#1. I get a lot of single mum roles - 'It's a Free World' turned out well, so people thought, 'She can be a single mum, Kierston can do that. Or live in a council house - she can do that.'

Kierston Wareing

#2. My mum was a single mum on the dole.

Jake Bugg

#3. I ended up in Broadmeadows orphanage - I don't know how that happened - whether she gave me up for adoption or the church was responsible. Whatever happened, she was a single mum.

Kerry Stokes

#4. I like the idea of a family, but I don't know that I'd like to be a single mum.

Heather Graham

#5. I feel like I'm back in business now, and I'm managing pretty well as a single mum. I've proved to myself I can do it. You come out the other end and think, 'Wow, I'm pretty good at this!'

Donna Air

#6. As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

Minnie Driver

#7. I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

Holliday Grainger

#8. I feel like a semi-single mum.

Elizabeth Hurley

#9. With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.

Ernest Rhys

#10. If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

Ovid

#11. The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him.

Diane Setterfield

#12. Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

Rene Dubos

#13. My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.

Felicity Jones

#14. My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

Ashley Jensen

#15. You can't manage a project. You can only mange your thoughts to come up with better ideas to do the project in a better way.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

Nancy Sinatra

#17. I'm very lucky. I have a really supportive husband in Henry, and there's my mum, too. I couldn't have a career and manage the kids' routines and household thing single-handedly. I'd just go crazy.

Sophie Kinsella

#18. Vickery, a slim fellow in his early fifties, had already sweated through his uniform. His shirt clung to his chest, and his pants puckered out in back where an ass should have been.

Gillian Flynn

#19. When I was a child, the thing I wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since my dad was in the Navy, that wasn't possible. Instead, I lived in a different home every couple of years.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#20. But mum was tough. No matter how fancily she dressed, she couldn't hide her true nature. Everyone at school was scared of her. Especially the other mums. She once knocked out a man with a single punch when he barged her trolley in Sainsbury's.

Matthew Crow

#21. I think the first album I bought was The Jackson Five, but the first CD I was given was 'Cotton-Eyed Joe,' the single! Bless my mum - don't know what she was thinkin'!

Sheridan Smith

#22. To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

Sheila Nevins

#23. Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live?

Dennis Prager

#24. Of course I'm smart. What were you expecting-'Lordy, Mr. Lawyer Man, I don't know nuthin' 'bout filin' no injunction'? Please, Alayna muttered.

Karyn Langhorne Folan

#25. It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.

Nikki Rowe

#26. The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#27. Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

Maria Cantwell

#28. No one knew.
Then Lily's mum knew, of course.
Then Lily knew.
And then everyone knew. Everyone. Which changed the whole world in a single day.
And he was never going to forgive her for that.

Patrick Ness