Quotes About Hope

Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

In my time, we didn't know songs could last. All we ever thought of was next Tuesday. You never imagined a future.

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.

There was this conflict within me because so many people would come up to me to ask for prayers for all sorts of things, and 50% would be about money like, 'How can I pay for the tuition fee of my kids?' And I could only pray for them. I had no advice to give them because I didn't know anything about money.

I don't want to be brain tumor girl. I don't want this to be my thing.

I had a tumor when I was young, and did not have any hope that I would live for long. Only because of my mother's love, I am alive now. So, why shouldn't I build a temple for her?

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.

With all the strife in the world, we must never forget that there is always a new melody, a new tune, a fresh star.

Songs like 'One Love' by Bob Marley - they stand the test of time - it doesn't matter - so anytime I write music, I try to write in tune with an emotion, and I hope there are more times like that for everyone.

When times are good, we have tunes to dance to; when times are tough, we're supposed to talk about it. That's country music.

I didn't want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don't quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it's good when they do it, but I didn't want to do it.

The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.

I speak to people who have coached me down the years who tell me to look at how far I've come and to just keep going, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you hate, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, that you're close to finished.

I want to show people no matter what they go through there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

I want people to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.