Working Parent Quotes

#1. I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin all your best-laid plans.

Tina Fey

#2. I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house.

Reese Witherspoon

#3. An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.

Philip Greenspun

#4. I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

Annie Lennox

#5. In a world that is changing as rapidly as this one, we need to think differently about leadership. Leading is not done by those few in high places, but by parents and teachers and managers and those governing
all working together to create the world that we want.

Susan Collins

#6. We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity.

Anna M. Aquino

#7. As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#8. Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.

Alan Cohen

#9. Fortunately, both my parents, especially my mom, have guided me, and been amazing at handling my career and my finances. They taught me not to buy what I don't need, when I'm not working that much.

Denzel Whitaker

#10. My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me.

Mike Huckabee

#11. 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

#12. To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.

Mark Victor Hansen

#13. Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

Pat Paulsen

#15. It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

Peter Greenaway

#16. If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working.

Thomas Sowell

#17. Do not blame your parents for not working hard enough to birth you with silver spoon in your mouth because tomorrow you will be a parent and your children will in turn blame you for not giving birth to them with the desired silver spoon.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#18. When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

Barbra Streisand

#19. 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

#20. Working models can be altered in negative directions as well by family changes such as divorce or a parent's illness,

Douglas Davies

#21. Fortunately for Luka, he lived in an age in which an almost infinite number of parallel realities had begun to be sold as toys.

Salman Rushdie

#22. We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

Mariella Frostrup

#23. Winter will pass, the days will lengthen, the ice will melt in the pasture pond. The song sparrow will return and sing, the frogs will awake, the warm wind will blow again. All these sights and sounds and smells will be yours to enjoy, Wilbur - this lovely world, these precious days ...

E.B. White

#24. Rejection is my fuel for awesome. Every no is one step closer to a yes.

Rene Gilley

#25. I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

Stephen Collins

#26. My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.

Hillary Clinton

#27. It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

Pope Benedict XVI

#28. I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.

Ivana Trump

#29. I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.

Eric Schlosser

#30. We need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, especially working moms. We need to join the rest of the advanced world.

Bernie Sanders

#31. MasterChef Junior for me was about working closely with these kids and getting them to reeducate their parents to understand that food is as important educationally as Math and English and it's important that we don't take it for granted.

Gordon Ramsay

#32. Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

Pete Seeger

#33. The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

John Engler

#34. Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

Jeff Bridges

#35. I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

Alison Moyet

#36. 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