Top 45 Single Mom Quotes

I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.

Single parents do not have the luxury of purchasing an abundance of healthy foods for their kids to try. I know this. As a single mom, I’ve been there.

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.

As a single mom, I want to say that having a child does not have to be a setback. You can still reach your dreams and teach your kids to reach for their dreams.

I thought running for Congress paled in comparison to being a parent and being a mom – especially a single mom of three kids.

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

Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn’t set up that way. We’re organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.

If you want to stand with me as a single mom – and I know so many of my friends and colleagues do – please don’t appropriate my burden as a way to validate your own. To suggest that you are single-parenting when you are simply solo for the weekend devalues what real single mothers do.

I’m comfortable around girls because I grew up with two sisters and a single mom. I feel very lucky for all they have taught me. They tell me to be myself, have fun, and focus on eye expressions.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I watched a ton of TV because I was raised by a single mom and spent a lot of time with my grandmother. Like most grandparents do, she would spend hours and hours in front of the TV box.

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

I didn’t even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, ‘Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you’ve been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn’t know it until you’ve been presented with these issues.’

If someone has money, they can put their child in a private school, paying tens of thousands of dollars for tuition. But their child’s needs are met. What is lacking is options for that single mom with three kids, or just that intact family but lower income.

How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who’s a crackhead? That – I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that’s because it was so personal and real to me.

Growing up in Orangeburg, I didn’t know that I lived in the ‘corridor of shame.’ I was the son of a single mom who learned to read from comic books. My grandparents helped raise me.

Let’s face it – being a nurse, a single mom of eight kids, I would not be able to provide for them in any way shape or form.

I kept working during my campaign because I needed to feed my family. As a single mom of three kids, I have a lot of child care that I needed to juggle, and I was a first-time candidate.

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn’t have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including I had a single mom who took care of me and my brother.

My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as, like, a single mom. My friends and everyone I know are like, ‘Wow, you guys really have a really good relationship.’ She’s with me a lot of the time, so people find that kind of shocking.

For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women – because I do; I come from a single mom who raised three boys on her own – I feel like, you close the door on women, you close the door on humanity.

I didn’t get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

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.

My mother’s a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

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

I was a kid growing up in Houston, didn’t have a lot – three younger brothers, a single mom. It was tough.

My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she’s always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I’ve learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.

I was sort of getting used to being a single mom, maybe a little too used to it.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

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.

I’m raised by a single mom and didn’t have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

I’m one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.

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.

Being a single mom, I fought my way through living in poverty, feeling like I wasn’t ever enough, feeling an annoying tug that we as a family possibly weren’t complete.

I’ve never had siblings, I didn’t grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little later.

I grew up in a bit of a feminist fantasy with a single mom. I was totally shielded, in a way, from an idea that I couldn’t do something.

This is the place where anybody – like an African American kid raised by a single mom – can be president.

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive – like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable – there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

I’m an only child raised by a single mom. She’s always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

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.

My mom was a single mom and I’m an only child, so growing up it was really just me and her against the world.

I was a single mom.