I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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.
Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business I learned from my mom and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.
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.
President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state Illinois.
Well my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.
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.
You know I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that but it happened.
My sisters and my mom those people help me get through every single day.
What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
It's the moms of this nation - single married widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers we're the wives we're the grandmothers we're the big sisters we're the little sisters we're the daughters. You know it's true don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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.
Men are like sheep of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
To date embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment where ethical adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.
I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl the life I had before - being single in a band girls everywhere - would be over.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
I enjoy being single but I loved being married.
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery you shall not kill you shall not steal you shall not covet and so on are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.