Quotes About Struggle

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

I Came To Mumbai With Just Rs. 1,500 ... My Mother Gave Me Before She Died

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.