Quotes About Struggle

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

Some people don't have a family to fall back on, like I have, and that's when something greater than even that comes in, and that's faith and that's what I have for me, that's what keeps me strong.

I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

Right when I was I was diagnosed my husband and I were actively trying for a family, which is heartbreaking for us both.

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

I got born in the wrong family.

I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations.