Quotes About Resilience

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

My mother had lots and lots of children who didnt survive.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's

My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

Women are weak, but mothers are strong.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.