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Quotes About Struggle

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.
~ Kinky Friedman
... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.
~ Sylvia Plath
I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.
~ Jake LaMotta
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.
~ Albert Camus
Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.
~ Jewel
Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right
~ Lord Randolph Churchill
She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside.
~ Avril Lavigne
I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.
~ Gordon Strachan
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
~ Rachel Stevens
Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place.
~ Douglas Florian
The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!
~ Andy Weir
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.
~ Thomas Mann
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
~ Andrei Platonov
I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
~ Anne Sexton
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
~ Bono
And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.
~ Scott Stapp
It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.
~ Suzanne Collins
Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home.
~ Ricki Lake
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
~ Matthew McConaughey
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]
~ Juvenal
I grew up in an underprivileged home.
~ Chris Kirkpatrick
I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.
~ Piper Perabo
Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
~ Thomas Otway