Quotes About Struggle

I was never good at school and was always fighting in the streets.

There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.

I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still very tough. If you look at the film footage of London streets, even in areas which weren't slums, there are kids in the streets who are dirty and have no shoes on. It was rough. There was a real edge.

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.

I think my father, who was Chinese, basically felt if we didn't major in science, we would starve on the streets, so we all went into science unquestioningly. I kind of faked my way through physics.

I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

My sister ran away for four years; she was living on the streets. I didn't know where she was, and then I was getting in trouble.

I don't walk the mean streets.

I don't even know how to think about running out of things to talk about. Certain things are inescapable to me. I'm connected by the hip with so many things in the streets.

O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.

I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but the stories come from actual personal experience, being out there in the streets living life.

I want to see Nelson walking down the streets of South Africa; I want to see him walking hand-in-hand with Winnie Mandela.

I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.

Most actors come from the streets, and their rise to fame is guided by a natural anger. It was harder to find that rage coming from a gentle background.

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the '80s, back when it just wasn't a cool scene. But my mother had the foresight to look for a number of projects that would keep us away from the streets.

I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.