Quotes About Struggle

When I pull my hair back in a ponytail, that's how you know I'm having a hard day.

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

My father, who was illiterate, smoothed iron for Ford Dagenham and we'd get up at 5;30 A.M. to give him a jump-start. My mother was a nurse and part of the Windrush generation. Growing up in east London, we were financially poor, but rich in hope and dignity, and we were happy.

I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

My family were really poor.

These places I've seen have clubbed my mind - they are so poor and depressing. I don't know what we can do to help these people, but we've got to do something.

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

I was brought up poor, but I've earned every cent in my bank account.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.