Quotes About Resilience

When we did the whole 'Let The Lox Go' campaign we was teenagers or in our early 20s.

I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you're going through and are going through it now.

Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.

I had a difficult start to secondary school, missing the first month because of 'Mary Poppins.' Everyone knew who I was, who my brother was - McFly were huge by then - and had made their mind up about me. One girl made everyone's life a misery, picking on insecurities. But that's just teenagers.

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.

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.

I can build a house with my bare hands. In my late teens I was in a band with my friend Henrik, and his builder father thought we needed something to fall back on, so he taught us carpentry and bricklaying and we built a house over two years.

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've knocked my front teeth out. I've got fake front teeth.

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

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

A crocodile just swung around and hit me with its teeth. It took a big chunk off my leg.

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.

I wrote 'My Teeth Hurt' in April 2018 when my teeth hurt and I didn't have dental insurance.

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.

You show your teeth more when you show what you're made of and your heart.

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

I did sleep on the floor of my office sometimes. I didn't brush my teeth as often as I should have. I think my hygiene has improved quite a bit.

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.

Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.