Single Quotes
- Page 33My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
Natalie Merchant
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Oliver Goldsmith
When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.
Rickie Lee Jones
What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.
Nick Clegg
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
Hermann Broch
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.
Judd Nelson
Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
Steve Irwin
The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.
Boris Kodjoe
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon
I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
Sidney Poitier
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Robert Anton Wilson
I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
Buzz Osborne
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.
Tom Vilsack
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.
Richard Thompson
I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.
Dar Williams
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Thomas Huxley
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Joseph Addison
I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
Joseph P. Kennedy