Quotes About Adversity

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.