Quotes About Adversity

Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser.

I was labeled 'P-E-A,' which is patient expired on arrival. I guess that's the politically correct way of saying you didn't make it.

I read a lot of history. It has taught me that any politician has to overcome difficult periods in order to achieve their goals.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.

My family were really poor.

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.

There's been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.

You gotta stay on your P's and Q's. When you popping so hard, got these blessings coming down, you got the devil tryin' to get at you.

My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.