Top 1200 Single Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for your children so that they can meet all the challenges.

I think any parent can imagine how difficult it would be to watch your child suffer.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single click, every single interaction with that site, is an opportunity to be on the very latest version of that application.

A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even of a single coterie. It sees the light in one; is rocked and nurtured in another; is petted, developed, and attains its growth in a third; and receives its finishing touches only after passing through a multitude of hands. It is a child that can count a host of fathers--all ready to disown it.

Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person.

I always knew I wanted to have children and that I'd be a great parent because I feel that's one of the reasons I was born, almost.

The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'

Money cannot give a life back; a child or a parent. I try to cherish every moment for this reason.

If your child has something creative they really want to do, it's up to you, their parent, to help make that happen.

Like every parent, I cannot rest easy until my children are home safe at night.

'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.

As far as being a parent, my view is no one is perfect, and what is important is that your children know you are there for them when they need you.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.

Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

In bringing my baby to work, I am happy to be a visible reminder of how messy and difficult it is to be a working parent.

The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me - not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen - to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.

I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!

There is no shaming in my house, we don't parent like that. We don't shame or punish, they're communicated with with as much compassion and lack of frustration as we can muster.

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.

The Simpsons has shaped my psychology to a degree one would usually attribute to a parent, or a particularly devout upbringing. I am a zealot.

Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.

Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.

If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.

A co-founder is like being somebody's parent: You want to make sure your offspring thrive.

There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.

Just small things are going to hopefully lead to a bigger surplus in the end. Obviously, you might not see it every single game, every single detail, but those small things and those small details add up so much, and that's what creates winning.

You have to decide what it is that shapes and defines you. I'm a big sister and a co-parent with my mom before anything. That's my root of all. It's my foundation.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

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What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like.