Being A Single Mom Quotes:

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

- Melissa Etheridge

source: "People in the News" with Paul Zahn, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2002.

topic: Mom, Children, Divorce, Being A Single Mom

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

- Rajneesh

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Happy Children

I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.

- Tichina Arnold

source: "Tichina Arnold: A Lover and a Fighter". ESSENCE Interview, www.essence.com. December, 16, 2009.

topic: Mom, Cards, Way, Being A Single Mom

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Mom, Children, Mean, Inspirational Father, Mother's Day

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

- Aristotle

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Inspirational Motherhood, Inspirational Mothers

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Mothers Day, God, Christian, Jewish Mother, Special Mother

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Love, Family, Mom, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

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

- Brooke Burns

topic: Mom, Dating, Different, Being A Single Mom

Men are what their mothers made them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Success, Mom, Mother, Just A Mom, Inspirational Mom

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

- Mike Wallace

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood, I Love My Mother, Special Mother

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

topic: Mom, Mother, People, Single Mother, Lovely Family

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

- Evan Bayh

topic: Mother, Children, Single Mom, Single Mother, Being A Single Mom

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

- Bill Richardson

topic: Single Mom, Struggle, Opportunity, Single Parent, Single Mother

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

- Bridget Moynahan

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

topic: Mom, Father, Thinking, Being A Single Mom

Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city.

- Dana Perino

source: "Baltimore remains calm after first night of mandatory curfew". "The Five" with Dana Perino, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2015.

topic: Mom, Jobs, Thinking, Jobs In America, Hardest Job

I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.

- Wendy Davis

topic: Mom, Running, Texas, Being A Single Mom