Jason Momoa Quotes

I was raised by a single mother.

My mom raised six kids on her own.

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

I was perhaps lucky to be born in a single-parent home where my mother, Shirin Mohammed Ali, was the sole figure I revered. My father's absence in my life in my formative years exposed me to only one person, who was my source of learning the lessons of life. So to me, listening to a woman and her worldly view is almost automatic.

My mom raised me.

When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

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.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

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

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.

If my parents didn't raise me in the way that they did, I wouldn't be in the position I am now. They raised me very independent and taught me you can do anything you want to. I have an average-sized brother and an average-sized sister, and I had to do everything they had to.

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised by a single mother who raised me incredibly well.

Coming from a single parent household, I witnessed firsthand the strength and courage of the single mother. I always had my father in my life but my household was run by my mother and my grandmother. As a result, I have always had the utmost respect for women and have chosen to strongly convey that in my music.

I have two sons and I have taught them to respect women. They have also seen how I, a single mother, have raised them.

Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.