Quotes About Hardship

Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.

Damn, you have no idea what I have been through today." "Actually I have a pretty good idea.

Death. Starvation. Blindness. Another grim day in our village.

Why was the universe so cruel?

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper.

BEREA, KENTUCKY, 1939.

NO RADIO; no movies; limited reading—little diversion between the hard day just past and the hard day just ahead. "Living was just drudgery then," says Carroll Smith of Blanco. "Living—just living—was a problem. No lights. No plumbing. Nothing. Just living on the edge of starvation. That was farm life for us. God, city people think there was something fine about it. If they only knew Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Recalling his mother's endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had "thought that mothers never had to sleep.

Raising the subject of East Tremont with Commissioner Moses, I asked him the most innocuous question I could think of: Wasn't it more difficult to build an expressway in the city rather than a parkway in the country? He waved his hand dismissively: "Oh, no, no, no," he said. "There are more people in the way—that's all. There's very little real hardship in the thing. There's a little discomfort, and even that is greatly exaggerated.

As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups – adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people.

The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion

The tears were his. Tyson had earned them.

seep in, with its physical cruelty, economic exploitation, and barren

Regret is so much harder to live with than failure

There was always something worse.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person has to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

Father's world was unsparing. Nothing good came free, even love. You paid for all things, and if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.