Quotes About Hardship

We had an era where we wasn't getting paid, before the 'Versace' and all that.

What a terrible thing life can be.

He gave me his terrible phony smile, which looked like something he had learned to do by studying a government manual on facial expressions. "The ways of the jungle are hard, Grasshopper," he said.

worn-out shoes. Few of the men had anything solid on their feet, and the curses toward the supply officers went mostly unheeded by the officers, who had worries of their own.

it out of his throat, wiped at the grime

Vegetables were almost nonexistent, and what passed for meat was either rancid or pure fat. The men were surviving on crackers and moldy flour. Lee was beginning to understand what this meant to the fighting strength of the army.

There were two good reasons why Kelley preferred to thumb a ride back to Stanford rather than take a bus or train. Twelve round trips a year meant she could save over a hundred dollars, which her father could ill afford after being laid off by the water company. In any case he and Ma had already made quite enough sacrifices to

I was born near Slonim. I saw my home taken over by the Germans, my sister raped by the Russians and later I escaped from a Russian labour camp and was lucky enough to reach America. I'm not mad. This is the only country in the world where you can arrive with nothing and become a millionaire though damned hard work regardless of your background.

And Richmond is my home. I can't leave. But it will be so hard for colored folks in the South when the war is done. Martha managed a smile. It's always been hard, and we've always gotten by.

Ko lai dara - š?s pasaules dz?ve ir vien?gi r?gts p?rbaud?jums, un cilv?ks rad?ts nepatikšan?m k? ugunskura dzirksteles - lidojumam.

Six shillings a week does not keep body and soul together very unitedly.

No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty—to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries.

It is wonderful what an insight into domestic economy being really hard up gives one.

Champions distinguish themselves from all others in that they are willing to sacrifice, suffer, and do everything that the nonchampions will not do.

And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

Work makes a callus against grief.