Quotes About Adversity

My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.

All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.

Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.

Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade.

One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the age of 22.

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

I spent a few years cutting my teeth in the Midwest; I worked for Ring of Honor, then I went down to Florida and relearned everything there.

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.

People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

When people ask me, 'When are you gonna stop rhyming?' I don't know when I'm gonna stop rhyming because we all got situations. Even when I get 50 or 60 years old, if God spares my life, if I got false teeth and I'm still rhyming, I have to rhyme about that.

I had big teeth, and I was goofy. I probably used to mess with people too much. People were always trying to be cool, and I was just being goofy and an idiot. So whenever I would get picked on - which happened a lot - I would usually find a way to talk my way out of it or joke my way out of it.

I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery.

It's kind of a kick in the teeth that I've been cheated on by my last two boyfriends, but I will be stronger for this.

I don't think its better to grow up normal and get the measles and mumps and have your front teeth knocked out.

I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.

You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.

We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.