Quotes About Hardship

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.

If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

The economic situation, the high cost of undertaking manufacturing, the supply chain - which is, by the way, dying out also as manufacturing undergoes hardship - make the U.K. not the first place you would look at to make a manufacturing investment.

Nothing really comes easy to you when you're under-recruited, you're undersized, you're undervalued. It's a situation where you have to be better than the bigger guys.

My father, who worked as a dishwasher, was especially anxious. He did not like being here undocumented.

I am not joking when I state that I remained uneducated because I could not afford education.

Coming out of Juilliard, I honestly was expecting and willing to be breaking my neck, hustling, and being unemployed for a decade, two decades. I was gritting my teeth, but I was so down to do that.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

I definitely have had my down times and also have had my times of being very, very unemployed.

I know what it's like to be on public assistance and to be unemployed. And I know what it's like to be evicted.

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

I kept auditioning, with no savings and no money, credit card debt gaining interest. I went on unemployment. I bought ramen noodles at dollar stores. I never had to - God forbid - live on the streets.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

Of course you've got a low unemployment rate when people have got to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet.

Life's unfair. You're going to have things happen to you.