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Quotes About Struggle

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.
~ Michael Gove
But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
~ Salman Rushdie
Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.
~ Nicholas Sparks
It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.
~ Bryan Ferry
My father was absolutely no good.
~ Charles Rangel
Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.
~ George Washington
Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.
~ Tori Amos
My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
~ Ted Cruz
I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
~ Yulia Tymoshenko
My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.
~ Junot Diaz
The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.
~ Lou Reed
I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.
~ William P. Young
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
~ Youssou N'Dour
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
~ Malachy McCourt
I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
~ Vincent Cassel
When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.
~ Paul Auster
My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep
~ Thom Yorke
I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.
~ Rafe Spall
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
~ Zinedine Zidane
My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.
~ Chris Pine
After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.
~ Leon Black
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
~ Albert Einstein
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
~ Robert Mugabe