Quotes About Resilience

My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.

I don't think there's any danger of my ever becoming complacent about losing. I always hated to lose, regardless of what it was, even when the family was playing Yahtzee.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.

[Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton] knew they would throw every lie they could at me and my family and my loved ones. They knew they would stop at nothing to try to stop me.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Everybody's family has problems.

There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down.

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.

I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going.

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

You don't do that. You don't just leave your family. Sticking together... it's the only way to survive.

My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish I know I'm doing just fine.

Sanity is for the weak

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.