Quotes About Struggle

Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way, all parents are entrepreneurs.

Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a perfect parent... You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

While managing a career and family leaves, some parents feeling guilty and frazzled; others seem to be able to effortlessly balance parenthood with full-time work. Parents who are able to raise well-adjusted children while also maintaining a career make sacrifices to keep the peace.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Having a kid who begged for 'just a few more minutes' of television was the antithesis of what I had hoped parenthood would be. It was resigning ourselves to a universe of want and consumption.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.

The black man's struggle in this country, I understood that. But I didn't really understand the historical message behind the 'Paris' song until later in my life.

When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It's a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud. Sports are big. You learn to fight.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

I legit can not parallel park. This is no joke!

There are days that I love just devoting to going to the park and playing with my son, but then sometimes you have to leave out other things, or if work is a full day of work, perhaps I miss the play time with my son, and I guess the only struggle is trying to not shortchange any of the things that you want to do.

'Kitchen Wars' makes 'MasterChef' look like a walk in the park!

When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.

That happens on a cricket field. People have a go at each other. That's fair, that's fine. It's called Test cricket. It's not a day in the park.

I played a couple first-class matches at Carlton and Guaracara Park and it was a real burial ground for the fast bowlers.

If you think I'm a walk in the park, come walk in this park and see how easy it is.

I feel that people think it's a really easy walk in the park - I just turn up and I'm always on top form. But the journey to that point is always a struggle.

I never had a walk in the park in my career.

I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.