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Quotes About Struggle

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.
~ John Steinbeck
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
~ John Webster
You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?
~ John Yau
Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
~ Will Cuppy
We understand nature by resisting it.
~ Gaston Bachelard
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
~ Phyllis Diller
There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
~ Ben Affleck
My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
~ Sarah Polley
I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.
~ Leah LaBelle
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
~ Cathy Guisewite
And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.
~ Christopher Titus
My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.
~ Dennis Wilson
A cry-wanking scene is the struggle to live, in a single moment.
~ James McAvoy
My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.
~ Victor Cruz
I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
~ Shaun White
I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.
~ Angela Kinsey
Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.
~ Sarah Wayne Callies
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
~ Jon Hamm
My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.
~ Kenny Troutt
There's no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
~ Ryan White
My heart and prayers go out to all single moms because it's tough, and I can't imagine any teenager dealing with a baby and all those hormones raging.
~ Jill Scott
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
~ Ethel Waters