Quotes About Struggle

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

At home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.

Id have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?

There weren't any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.