Quotes About Struggle

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.