Quotes About Struggle

My dad and his sister, who is no longer with us, used to dance on the streets for money. They had nothing.

I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing in the NBA in the same way.

Mobb Deep is a street-rap group. We from off the streets.

New York reminds me of what my career was like when I lived here, so when I walk through the streets, I remember when I had ten bucks in my pocket and all I could eat is Chipotle.

When I say we're on different side of the streets, it's true. Me and Terence Crawford are on different side of the streets.

Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.

I used to get money and hustle and do it in the streets.

Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and their remaining family are the friends they've come to rely on.

The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.

I don't like to open my mouth a lot because, I'll be honest with you, man, I come from the streets.

I have a 200-song catalogue in the streets and I never got any money off that.

When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.

But like everyone else I've come to the sad realisation food banks are an all-too-common feature on the streets of Britain.

I guess that people can't imagine three girls just getting up off the streets and making a career for themselves without someone to help them - which is what we did.

Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times, struggle, and the fight to have equality and things be better.

I used to run the streets, my mom used to be crying all the time, coming to get me out of the police station all the time. Sports took me off the street.

The idea of my parents was to keep us away from the streets. Gelsenkirchen is not a rich city. The crime is above average so they always tried to keep us away from bad things, and I think they were successful.

The streets are tough but sport, and boxing especially, has put me on the right path in my life.

Growing up in Chicago is hard. I'd say 80 percent of the people ain't really got no daddies. Their household wasn't right. All they know is the streets and getting some money to support each other and support their family.

Your mom's working 9 to 5 every day and might get a second job. So you're really raising yourself, and you've got nobody else, so you go outside, and the streets raised most of us.

The types of songs I used to do, I used to sing a lot for the streets.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.