Quotes About Resilience

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.

I just feel like it's my job to take care of my body. I play a contact sport, 99.9 percent injury rate. As far as being injury-prone or getting hurt, it's going to happen. But it's my job to take care of my body, come week in and week out.

I wanted my kids to be able to look at their mom and be like, 'She can take care of herself.'

You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others.

My goal after 9/11 was to take care of the families of the people we lost, and that was the most important thing.

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.

I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

Believe me, I've taken a lot of heat for my mustache.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the man that we had worked for, he'd taken the car, and the most of the few things we had had been stolen.

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

It's taken me a long time to own the early part of my life.

In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us. Fifteen were injured. And everyone - absolutely everyone - in the Douglas Community was forever altered.

Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.

I have always loved to skate, and that is all I wanted to do. Having my whole, entire career taken away from me by somebody else - not losing it myself - I do have blame, but when somebody takes your whole, entire life away from you, and you don't know what to do, it's like you're lost.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.