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Quotes About Resilience

We go hard or we go home we gon' do this all night long! #werk
~ Madonna Ciccone
You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.
~ Andrew Sullivan
A mobile home with a flat tire is a home.
~ Demetri Martin
The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.
~ Sy Safransky
There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana
~ Dave Eggers
Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.
~ Dean Koontz, Winter Moon
We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
~ Dwayne Johnson
I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.
~ Tom Ford
There weren't any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.
~ Mira Grant
The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.
~ Neon Hitch
I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.
~ Nick Johnson
However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.
~ Rachel Hartman
Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.
~ Rebecca Ferguson
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
~ Norman Fell
Personally, I don't like watching films about victims - people where you're meant to think, 'Oh, this is terrible,' and you go home feeling really depressed.
~ Kim Longinotto
I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.
~ Lakhdar Boumediene
Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.
~ LeBron James
Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Home was always the place she went to when she had to start over.
~ Lorna Landvik
I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.
~ Maria Semple
I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me.
~ MaryJanice Davidson
If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.
~ Nancy Grace
I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.
~ Nikki Sanderson