Quotes About Resilience

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.

My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.