Quotes About Resilience

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

When he beat my mother it made me so mad.

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.