Solo Parent Quotes

#1. When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else. #Quote by Jack Jason

#2. Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and - and to make her live, you know, make her want to live. And there's something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents' death. #Quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook

#3. I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing. #Quote by Charlie Cox

#4. Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere. #Quote by Tim Wise

#5. A child is not an empty vessel.... to be formed in whatever way the parent thinks fit. They are born with their own hearts and they cannot be made otherwise, no matter what love a man lavishes on them. #Quote by Diane Setterfield

#6. I'm from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry. #Quote by Alex Karpovsky

#7. Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light. #Quote by Shmuley Boteach

#8. We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in. #Quote by Michael Fassbender

#9. A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion. #Quote by Jeremy Taylor

#10. We have said that Athos loved d'Artagnan like a child, and this somber and inflexible personage felt the anxiety of a parent for the young man. #Quote by Alexandre Dumas

#11. As parents, you may confidently rear your children according to Gods Word. While bringing up your children, you are to remember that your children are not your 'possessions' but instead are the Lords gift to you. You are to exercise faithful stewardship in their lives. #Quote by John C. Broger

#12. My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. #Quote by Samuel L. Jackson

#13. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home. #Quote by Tina Fey

#14. My parents were workers. #Quote by Marco Rubio

#15. The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters. #Quote by Marion Nestle

#16. Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general. #Quote by Virgil Miller Newton

#17. Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval. #Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

#18. Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don't do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you're parents want you to do, or what that beautiful girl or guy thinks you should be doing. Do what you love. It's going to lead to where you want to go. Go out there and make the world more beautiful. I know you can. #Quote by Wayne White

#19. My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right. #Quote by James McBride

#20. I always want her to know she is loved. But I will make my own mistakes, I know. I can only hope that she will forgive me for those; forgiveness is all a parent can hope for. #Quote by Christie Watson

#21. I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership. #Quote by Jada Pinkett Smith

#22. A huge majority of parents use some form of physical or verbal aggression against children. Since women remain the primary caretakers of children, the facts confirm the reality that given a hierarchal system in a culture of domination which empowers females (like the parent-child relationship) all too often they use coercive force to maintain dominance. In a culture of domination everyone is socialized to see violence as an acceptable means of social control. Dominant parties maintain power by the threat (acted upon or not) that abusive punishment, physical or psychological, will be used whenever the hierarchal structures in place are threatened, whether that be in male-female relationships, or parent and child bonds. #Quote by Bell Hooks

#23. The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! #Quote by Louise Hart

#24. Spanking doesn't lead to anything in the child, other than anger, a sense of frustration and humiliation. And parents can do better. I'm not saying it should be against the law but parents can do better. #Quote by Sean Hannity

#25. At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing. #Quote by Andre Gide

#26. I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received. #Quote by Ace Frehley

#27. I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. #Quote by Lena Dunham

#28. Dash shoved his hands on his hips and looked down into the bowl. 'You gave my fish pink rocks?' he said as he turned to face her.
Joy shrugged. 'I didn't really look at the colour I just grabbed the nearest bag.'
'It had to be pink?'
'There's some blue as well.'
He looked into the bowl again. 'Not really.'
Joy couldn't believe she was having a conversation about pink rocks when the bigger question of what the hell he'd found out about the robberies was still unanswered.
'You think it's going to turn Ralph gay?' she asked sweetly.
'Given that he's living his life out solo it's kind of a moot question, don't you think?'
'You're right, I think he needs a girlfriend. Or a boyfriend.'
'With those rocks? I think he needs Fishtank Barbie in there.'
'Is your masculinity threatened because your fish has pink rocks?'
Dash folded his arms. 'He's a bloke. He doesn't do pink.'
Joy glanced at the bowl. 'It works,' she said. 'It...blends.'
'He's orange,' Dash said. 'Since when have pink and orange gone together? #Quote by Amy Andrews

#29. I've changed a great deal. I used to be vicious to my parents, just because they objected to me going full-time with a group. Now I can see that all they wanted was the best for me. And we get on great. #Quote by Peter Ham

#30. When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before. #Quote by David Crosby

#31. My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that. #Quote by Dree Hemingway

#32. It is also important to remember that no state in the United States requires a homeschooling parent to have a public school teaching certificate, just as many private schools do not require one (though some, such as Montessori and Waldorf, require teacher training in their unique programs). The #Quote by Patrick Farenga

#33. Unfortunately, it's not until you've had children that you discover how selfish you actually are. That's one of the paradoxical aspects of becoming a parent: at the very same time you realize precisely how selfish you are, you are forced to become less selfish. #Quote by Mark Cleary

#34. My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead. #Quote by Nicole Kidman

#35. However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire. #Quote by Vera Brittain

#36. In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing. #Quote by Norah Jones

#37. Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'. #Quote by Tim Bajarin

#38. Compra solamente lo necesario, no lo conveniete. Lo innecesario, aunque cueste un solo centimo, es caro.

Buy only what is necessary, not what is convenient. What is unnecessary, even if it only costs one cent, is expensive. #Quote by Seneca.

#39. Rule #1 of Traveling-
Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"? #Quote by Sanhita Baruah

#40. When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit. #Quote by Stevie Nicks

#41. there's going to come a time when we won't speak for days on end." "There won't." "There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen to them, but it happens to everyone. #Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer