Top 1200 Single Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace.

Every single day was an opportunity for me to be on the field, if I was starting, playing or not playing, every single day I came out here ready to work.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.

Every parent wants to see their child settle down.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

My standup has always been a direct reflection of my life. When I was single, I talked about single stuff. I talked about dating. When I got married there were only a handful of stories I could move over to where I wasn't going to be disrespectful to my wife. So I developed a new routine.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.

If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.

Let's start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed it was anything other than sheer insanity to yoke together diverse national economies such as Greece, Ireland, Germany and Finland under a single exchange rate and a single interest rate?

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.

I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single word thereto, or take a single word threreto. It is a great national enactment done by the people, and can only be altered, amended, or added to by the people.

Nick Diaz brings it every single time and I bring it every single time.

Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.

I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan. I literally love every single film. He hasn't made a bad film; I've seen every single one. They've all been brilliant, from 'Bottle Rocket' up to 'Moonrise Kingdom,' they've all been wonderful.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

I was really strict about my daughter sleeping in her own room, and now she's really independent and likes it that way. So I think for all new moms, I can totally see how you can get wrapped up in making your child 100% your time. But if you could just take 5% or 10% for yourself a day, it won't just make the difference in your confidence, but also your sanity. I think once you just set boundaries and how you're going to parent - everyone parents differently so I hate to be that person to tell them how anyone should parent, I think whatever works for you works.

It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.

You have to figure out what works for you as a parent, and it's hard to do everything all at once.

The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a single expression. If many photographs of a person were taken at different times, perhaps even years apart, their composite would possess that in which a single photograph is deficient.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

I'm pretty relaxed as a parent, and I think that people might be surprised by that.

Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

Being a parent changes you in life. I am responsible now.

As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

Every single player matters. Every single player can change the course of the game.

I think everyone should be a parent at some point in life.

My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.

If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

As a parent you cannot support your child striking from school.

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.

Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

It's my goal every single year. That's the only goal I really set for myself is to make sure I'm better every single year.

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.