Single Mom Quotes - Page 3

• There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

  Diane Setterfield

  Writing, Ideas, Moments

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

  Caroline Knapp

  Simple, Air, Alcohol

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.8, Dial Press

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• There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.

  Gloria Allred

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.

  Barbara Holland

  Falling In Love, Philosophy, Character

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Action, Moments

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  New Beginnings, Understanding, Moments

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• My heart and prayers go out to all single moms because it's tough, and I can't imagine any teenager dealing with a baby and all those hormones raging.

  Jill Scott

  Mom, Baby, Prayer

  "Jill Scott on being a single mother". Interview with Kenya N. Byrd, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. June 23, 2009.

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• If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have.

  Gillian Anderson

  Mom, Opportunity, People

  "As the X-files Ends, I Realise How Much". The Express, June 07, 2002.

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• My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

  Kim Raver

  Mom, New York, Inspiration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

  Jason Aldean

  Mom, Jobs, Had Enough

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• If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

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• I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Strong, Brother

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• I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

  Brooke Burns

  Mom, Dating, Different

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• A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Love Is, Moments

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• A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

  Kim Edwards

  Numbers, Different, Infinite

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.214, Penguin

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• I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Mom, Son, Thinking

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks 'The Lying Game' Shockers and More". Interview, okmagazine.com. February 26, 2013.

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• Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

  Wes Moore

  Important, Shapes, Moments

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.133, Spiegel & Grau

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• Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not create it. Happiness is created through countless choices made and then made again throughout a lifetime. You are its host as well as its guest. You give it form, shape, individuality, texture, tone. And what it allows you to give can change your world. Happiness can be stillness. But it isn't still. It wraps, enchants, heals, consoles, soothes, delights, calms, inspires and connects. It is on your face and in your body. It is in your life and being.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Choices Made, Giving, Inspire

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• I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.

  Louis C. K.

  Mom, Mother, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm not a single mom with two jobs, trying to get by, every day. I have much more support than most women, around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mom, Jobs, Home

  "Angelina Jolie Talks MALEFICENT, Getting into Character, Wearing the Costume and Horns, Directing UNBROKEN, Balacing Work and Family, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

  Rose Kennedy

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

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• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Love, Family, Mom

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• 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.

  Edie Falco

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Art, Mean, Expression

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.1, Pendragon Press

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• I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

  Connie Stevens

  Beautiful, Girl, Mom

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