Being A Single Parent Quotes:

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

I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

- Cherie Lunghi

topic: Jobs, Two, Long, Single Parent, Organised

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

- LeBron James

source: Interview With Larry King, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

topic: Mom, Mother, Taken, Single Parent, Being A Single Parent

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

- Arsenio Hall

topic: Jobs, Parent, Would Be, Single Parent, Defining Moments

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

- Larry David

topic: Mom, Mother, Kids, Being A Single Parent, Best Of Both Worlds

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

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

- Joan Cusack

topic: Mean, Impact, Parent, Single Parent, Myopic

I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.

- David Toop

source: "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

topic: Daughter, Children, Grieving, Single Parent, Five Year Olds

You know, unfortunately divorce it happens in Kansas as much as it does in Hollywood. And, you know, women having to start over at 40, you know, for the first time in their life having to find a career and being a single parent and having to date. You know, all of those things happen everywhere in the world. It's not just Los Angeles. So I would defend the fact that there are, you know, there are other reasons to watch than just to get a laugh.

- Debra Messing

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Divorce, Careers, Kansas, Being A Single Parent

I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author.

- Bill Maher

topic: Believe, Giving, Parent, Being A Single Parent

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

- Reese Witherspoon

topic: Thinking, Parent, Stressed, Single Parent, Being A Single Parent

She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.

- Ashley Judd

topic: Mom, Thinking, Arrows, Being A Single Parent