Quotes About Struggle

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course, you've got to push through it all if you're to write, and if you don't, or can't, you're sunk.

Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

It's never sunny in Buffalo.

Not always behind the scenes is it sunny.

People think about L.A. as being sunny and relaxed, but there's a darker side to it. There's people living in tents under bridges in their thousands. The culture almost encourages you to look the other way.

'Sunrise Sunset' is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.

I hated sunsets for a long time.

I think if you're not strong, in life or in football, not every day is going to be going up and seeing the sunshine.

It's never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.

Things aren't always full of sunshine, there has to be friction at times as well.

This country is in a crisis. And if you're fighting to save this country, if you're fighting to take this country back, it's not going to be sunshine and patriots. It's going to be people who want to fight. I mean, Andrew Breitbart was all about the fight.

Everyone has a dark cloud hovering over them at some point, but then there is sunshine.

I've had my day in the sunshine with wrestling.

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.