Top 1200 Single Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.

It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder that single life might be preferable.

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I'm making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen.

The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

My favorite memory of Kevin Garnett is not a memory - it's more of the experience I had with him for a year, just enjoying that moment of being his teammate, conversing with him every single day, learning from him every single day.

Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation.

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

If I can stay healthy, then I can wrestle every single week. I want to make every single town that I can, see the whole world, feel every crowd in every arena, and pull those emotional strings. I can't explain what it feels like to be in the center stage connecting with thousands of people, but I'm having the best time doing it.

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

I have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.

I love the 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' I love everybody. I loved every single person in the Cosby house, I loved every single person who went to Hillman.

I have the distinction of being the only member of the Allman Brothers who has never missed a single show. I have played every single show the Allman Brothers have ever played.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.

If you want an MMO, there are plenty out there. The difference with a single player game is that in the same way you lose yourself in a good novel, you can lose yourself in a single player story. You see it in all these games, where you can fill your house with turnips or decorate your armour with a dragon skull.

Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really was hand to mouth at one point. It was literally as poor as you can get in Britain without being homeless at one point. If you've ever been there you will never, ever take for granted that you don't need to worry. Never.

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

In my spare time, I volunteer at my daughters' schools so I can stay involved with the activities and parent/teacher community.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

It has always been the case that people on out-of-work benefits have to apply for more or less any job they can reasonably be expected to take. But the operative word there is 'reasonable,' because a job that's appropriate for a single, able bodied 22-year-old man may very well not be appropriate for a single mum who can't afford childcare.

I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.

I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.

As any parent knows, sharing diaper duty sure beats changing them all yourself.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

In every single place I have campaigned in and every single place I have lived, people want some fairly basic things. They want to believe that they are safe, they want to know that their children will be educated and that if they are ill, they will be made better.

I've loved Kevin McDonald's movies for a while and it was an amazing experience because he really wanted to do something different. It was by far one of the hardest things I've ever done, to wake up every single day and know that you're going to be freezing cold and wet, every single day, 10 times a day, and there's no getting away from it.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

You take responsibility for your children but you're not always the taxi driver and that doesn't make you a bad parent.

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.

I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.