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Single Mom Quotes - Page 5

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Diane Setterfield
Single Mom, Writing, Ideas
Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

David Zindell
Single Mom, Perfect, Infinite
"Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.

So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single moment where I thought to myself, Oh, I need to write about Margaret Cavendish. She just kept taking over the book I thought I was writing.

Danielle Dutton
Single Mom, Book, Writing
Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I'm saying at every single moment.

Dan Bejar
Single Mom, People, Moments
Source: pitchfork.com

The only thing worse than dating a single mom is dating a single mom that won't put out.

Chelsea Handler
Mom, Single Mom, Dating

Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.

Charles Wagner
Memories, Single Mom, Men

In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.

Barbara Holland
Falling In Love, Philosophy, Single Mom
Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.

Anne Robinson
Single Mom, Dresses, Needs

It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank
Teenager, Single Mom, Inspiration

All it takes is a single moment.

Alison McGhee
Single Mom, Moments
Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.38, Candlewick Press

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

Adam Dunn
Baseball, Football, Single Mom

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