Single Parenting Quotes

“No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.”
― Dick Gregory

“She didn't have a daddy?" I asked.
"No."
"Did you have a daddy?"
"You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Mostly they all were products of single parents, and in the most tragic category - black boys, with no particular criminal inclinations but whose very lack of direction put them in the crosshairs of the world.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

“Heavy is the head forced to wear two crowns.”
― R.P. Falconer, Lilif

“These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.”
― Natalie Taylor

“Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.”
― Eva Hart

“Heavy is the head, forced to wear two crowns.”
― R. P. Falconer

“सिंगल पेरेंट्स का मतलब सिविलियन समाज के लिए नया है परन्तु फौज के लिए यह व्यवस्था उतनी ही पुरानी है जितना फौज का अस्तित्व।”
― Vandana Yadav, कितने मोर्चे

“On the note of Environment which is a big issue at the moment, I personally think, in order to be able to look after it, you need to look after your body, first. As they say, if you can't look after yourself, you will not be able to look after anything else."
By Teren Hanz, Author MAYA”
― Teren Hanz, Maya

“I liked a girl, but never knew what to say.
I won awards, longing for your "hooray."
I was in a play doing whatever wildness suited.
I did the same drugs mom said you did.

It was always momma and me.
You loved the racetracks for decades, but left me at three.
All my friends were fatted with a love to claim,
And the only thing you ever gave me was your name.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?

“But I was lost without Katie. For fourteen years, she had been the capital letter at the beginning of my sentence and the exclamation point at its end.”
― Barbara Lynn-Vannoy

“Single parenthood is when, like a soccer goalkeeper, you’re compelled to guard two goalposts at the same time.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“It's not that I'm not occasionally interested in romance, or even just sex. It's just that the chances of my interest coinciding with opportunity and, more important, physical energy are very remote."
Rachel frowned. "You guys make it very hard for us single women to look forward to having kids."
Angie and I spoke in unison. "Good.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings

“It is nearly impossible for a person who grew up without both parents to have a non-dysfunctional adulthood or relationships.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“Longing for someone to give meaning to your life indicates a lack of personal goals and aspirations.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“A single parent is one who, despite gender classification, should be sent both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day goodwill messages.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“...a single parent, an honest-to-God buck-stops-with-me single parent was a rare species.”
― C J Cooke

“Aiden sighed loudly. “There will be no sex dungeon. I can’t believe I even have to say those words.”
― Jocelynn Drake, Healing Aiden

“My mom raised me the best way she could with the tools she had available. I asked her once if she found being a single mom harder than being a not-single mom.

"Just because I was married to your father doesn't mean I wasn't always a single mom," she said more than once.”
― Gwenna Laithland, Momma Cusses

“Time is the Novocaine for the toothache in my heart.”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, The Business of Lovers

“When the child becomes the keeper of memory, the parent becomes the recipient of legacy. The hands once lifted in sacrifice shall be lifted in celebration, for the grown child will return—not empty—but full of honor, ease, and joy. Her children arise and call her blessed, and now they bless her back with the fruit of remembrance.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood