Top 1200 Single Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

As a parent, I know that the State has no greater responsibility than protecting the safety of our children.

Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and no single way of looking at them can illuminate all examples or even all the important properties of a single example of a special function.

Standup really is a young man's game, a single young man's game. Even when I was younger, when I wasn't single, it was hard to be on the road because you go through relationships because your girlfriend kinda got tired of you being gone.

I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.

Every single character I've ever played has a little bit of me in them just because every single human in the world has a little bit of everything in them.

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

Every single person in every single company is either in sales or affects sales. Every single person in every single company is either in service or affects service.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

When a child is out of control, he or she needs you, the parent, to make them feel safe.

The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be

Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year.

When I was 12, my mother took me to nightclubs. She had no idea how to parent.

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

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.

Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts.

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

I've come a very long way, especially from my young career. From not always being the best guy on the team to just increasing my work ethic every single year, every single summer. Just seeing the hard work pay off, I think that's what's most gratifying for me.

I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like, "Trust me, you don't want to have to actually interact with these people."

I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.

We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

I think, my first season on 'SNL,' I watched every single episode of 'Step by Step,' and a few years prior to that, I watched every single episode of 'Family Matters.'

Growing up in the '80s in central New Jersey as a weird kid with a blue mohawk listening to the Sex Pistols and dressing really funky, I was bullied pretty badly. It was every single day in elementary school and kept going into middle school, too. I felt totally alone, without a single person there for me.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."

You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

I think it is only when you marry and become a parent that you begin to understand that life isn't always straightforward.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

As a parent you know you want to provide safe, healthy environments for your children.

My son has one parent who's 50. I want him to have a family of young people, too!

When you don't have as much debt as we do, we don't have to worry about having this debt ceiling fight every single year. And I really think people are getting sick of having this news cycle every single year from Congress, from the Washington bubble.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

At the very beginning, being a parent did impact how I go about this business.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

All of us are selling ourselves, every single minute of every single dayeach one of us is building our own 'brand of me' and saying 'buy into me, put your faith into me, give me this shot, I will make it happen.'

Unfortunately, when you're a parent and you completely love your child, it can make you act a bit crazy.