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Quotes About Resilience

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?
~ Maria Rodale
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
~ Matthew Arnold
When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.
~ Nikki Sixx
Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.
~ Theodor Herzl
I am this fiery snail crawling home.
~ Charles Bukowski
Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
~ Bootsy Collins
I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.
~ Amy Winehouse
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.
~ Erin Gray
... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.
~ Sylvia Plath
These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.
~ Rick Bragg
Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place.
~ Douglas Florian
Just because you didn't get your way, don't take your ball and go home.
~ Bill Rancic
Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.
~ Gayle Forman
The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.
~ Mark McGwire
I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
~ Anne Sexton
It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.
~ Suzanne Collins
Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.
~ Junot Diaz
May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.
~ Gautama Buddha
I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.
~ Hannah Kent
I grew up in an underprivileged home.
~ Chris Kirkpatrick
My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
~ Missy Elliot
Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
~ Earl Nightingale
If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
~ Justin Timberlake
We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!
~ JJ Feild