Single Parent Family Quotes

#1. This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home' ...

Julian Barnes

#2. 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

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

Moby

#4. Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

Christina Applegate

#5. We inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family - a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on the support of the surrogate parents, sun and moon, to manage her terrestrial brood.

John Lamb Lash

#6. You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be taught to be a writer. That has to come from within.

Robert J. Randisi

#7. The secret of successful education ... is finding out how a particular person learns

Nancy Farmer

#8. I always thought I'd make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too.

Neil Patrick Harris

#9. It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

Henrik Ibsen

#10. Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.

Nicholas Kristof

#11. The wondrous God is the author of souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.

Natasha Lyonne

#13. Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.

James Thurber

#14. The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#15. Pride, lust, and whiskey are a potent combination.

Rachel Bach

#16. The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Ayn Rand

#17. The police must secure the willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the law in order to secure and maintain public respect.

Lee P. Brown

#18. Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

Dacia Maraini

#19. 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

#20. Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.

Jen Kirkman

#21. Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty

Saint Francis De Sales

#22. Compared to children raised in an intact, married family, children raised in single-parent or cohabiting homes are significantly more likely to suffer psychological problems such as depression, to get into trouble with the law, to become pregnant as teenagers, and to drop out of high school.75

W. Bradford Wilcox

#23. 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

#24. I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.

Jose Ferreira

#25. 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