Quotes About Struggle

Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Stepping to me? Yo, that's the wrong move. So what you on, hobbs, dope or dog food?

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.

People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer.

I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

I was diagnosed with full-body cancer. I am the healthiest person you know. You know I do it all. I take vitamins. I grew my own food. I do everything. And it didn't fit, and it was so awful.

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

It's very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.