Quotes About Resilience

I want to live in a beautiful, nature-filled world, and, if we get shot on the streets fighting for it, so be it.

I was a quiet kid on the streets. The loudmouths would push me around but when I was boxing, I was beating them up and it felt good.

I grew up in the streets, but that doesn't mean I'm a bum.

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I was never good at school and was always fighting in the streets.

You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.

I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still very tough. If you look at the film footage of London streets, even in areas which weren't slums, there are kids in the streets who are dirty and have no shoes on. It was rough. There was a real edge.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.

I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses, going to the store. I really wanted to write about that: the independence that's a little bit scary but also a really positive thing in a lot of ways.

My sister ran away for four years; she was living on the streets. I didn't know where she was, and then I was getting in trouble.

I don't walk the mean streets.

I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the '80s, back when it just wasn't a cool scene. But my mother had the foresight to look for a number of projects that would keep us away from the streets.

I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.