Quotes About Resilience

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself.

Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes... Well, that might work, but does your mother live near here?

Life - with or without softener- is hard

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness, ' as he would call it.