Quotes About Adversity

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

Don't take your bad shots home with you.

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.

I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

A mobile home with a flat tire is a home.

The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.