Quotes About Struggle

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which is why we are far more powerful than ever before but we don't seem to be much happier.

Many in the precariat know they have to spend considerable time just waiting for opportunities to arise.