Top 1200 Single Mother Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

There's nothing you can take for granted; not a single day, not a single minute, not a single relationship.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

As a single mother for 10 years, I brought in around $12,000 annually.

My father left the family right after I was born, so my mother was working every single day to support me and my brothers.

I was a single mother, and my boys were babies. I sold my body for food, money, and Pampers.

I wanted love from every single woman on the planet because I didn't have my mother's love.

If you're a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I'm concerned, and you're working hard to put food on your family.

As the youngest child of a single immigrant mother with a third-grade education, I never thought in my wildest dreams that I'd ever be an elected official.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

I’d learned that my mother was a badass in disguise. She was Van Helsing in an apron and heels, and—at least for the time being—I couldn’t think of a single thing cooler than that.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘Was I in the right place?’ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man. If the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this m-therf—ker down!

I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.

There is no single individual greater than a mother. They are the great keepers of our society and heads of our households.

I celebrate my life, whether it's being a single mother, wearing diamonds, or holidaying in exotic places.

When I was seven months pregnant with Ariana, my husband cheated on me, so I became a single mother to a four-year-old and a newborn.

The only single guy driving a minivan is a guy whose mother bought the van 16 years ago...

I'm a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn't usually end in Congress.

I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.

Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.

As a single mother, I qualified for Pell Grants, and received a scholarship from a small organization for domestic violence survivors.

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

As I've said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn't just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You've got to keep working at that over time.

I came from nothing. My mother was a single mother in the streets. She did everything she could do. Me and my brother experienced a lot on our own and with me knowing that feeling, I didn't want others to have that feeling, so that's why I fight for the streets. I'm making my own lane and staying true to myself, 'cause at the end of the day, you can't ban the truth.

I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman.

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

The option to freeze one's eggs is just about the most empowering choice a single woman who knows she wants to be a mother can make.

Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.

When I had my first child, I was too embarrassed to tell a single soul that I wasn't the over-the-moon, picture-perfect new mother I was supposed to be.

As a single mom, I'm juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother without and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child's history is never finished.

After my husband died more than a decade ago, my mother prayed that I would remarry so that I could have a "normal" life again. Many people assumed that it would be too difficult for me to carry on as a single mother and raise a child without a man at my side. As the years went by, I found that it was indeed possible and that, in fact, I had no desire to remarry.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.

I was born to a single mother and often struggled to find my next meal. With the right opportunities from public education and mentors, I achieved the American dream.

Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.

My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

Sometimes, being a single mother, I miss the freedom. I see my other friends with kids, and when they go out for a drink, it is the dad that stays in.

Do you want to see a mother and son antagonistically attack each other every single episode for five years? I don't think so.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

My mother has been pressurising me to get married every single day.

I am a single mother of two sons and politics demands 100 per cent commitment.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!