Top 1200 Single Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

I want to do a book called 'Shopping and Cooking for One with Tony Danza,' where I will show you how to shop. And, by the way, it should be a movement, because there are many single people in this world. You go to the supermarket, and you need celery, you gotta buy a whole head of celery. It's very difficult for single people.

A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore been created in the image of the inscriptions that, as a child, I used to project unto my bits of bone, stone, wood, and iron, probably even in the image of a single one of their words, a single one of their letters.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Every single one cabinet appointment: education, environment, labor - every single one is selected to undermine any aspect of government that's of any help to people, and that doesn't benefit the super-rich. And it's absolutely systematic. The interesting question will be how long Donald Trump's constituency can fall for the con game.

The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

There is still quite the vibe out there that as a parent you have to be completely in control and in charge.

As a parent, I understand that on an individual level parents would do anything for their child.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

What a nightmare it would be if we individually had to criminalise every single abuse of every single commodity, market or financial product. There are thousands of these and new ones being invented every day. Such an approach would have disastrous implications for regulation and policy-making. Any slide towards it must be resisted.

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

I'm really grateful for my mom. And my mom always raised me being a single mother. Being a single mother, a lot of stress comes with that. You gotta work, you gotta come home and do everything.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent.

A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.

When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

As a parent I fail because my son does not take me seriously.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can.

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

The really interesting stuff about virtuality is what you can measure with it. Because what you can measure in virtuality is everything. Every single thing that every single person who's ever played in a game has ever done can be measured.

I think it is since I became a parent that I am much more afraid.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

Background checks will never stop every criminal from getting their hands on a gun and every single act of gun violence - but the evidence is clear that it's the single most effective policy to help keep guns out of dangerous hands and save lives.

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be the strangest thing of all, absolutely incomprehensible. For we are not familiar with this kind of living. We do not have solitary, isolated creatures. It is beyond our imagination to conceive of a single form of life that exists alone and independent, unattached to other forms.

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

[Music From the Edge of Heaven] wasn't really an album at all. The band had made the decision to release an LP and then split up. We wanted to go out with a bang in Britain and the rest of the world by having a single that was four songs, not just one song. But we couldn't do that over here because we couldn't release a single without an album.

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.

We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.

I really believe that I've been a better parent from being a working mother.

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.

I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Everything a parent chooses to do in their life will forever haunt their kids.

I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.

I'm the alpha parent most of the time, but bedtime is a completely different animal.

If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.

You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band. I saw them on their first ever tour, at Birmingham Town Hall. They just blew me away.