Quotes About Struggle

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16 it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself even and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.

I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.

There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.

She's not pushing forty she's dragging it.

Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.

Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.