Quotes About Struggle

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.

I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

I am this fiery snail crawling home.

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home?

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.