Taylor Swift Quotes

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.

I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

I kept auditioning, with no savings and no money, credit card debt gaining interest. I went on unemployment. I bought ramen noodles at dollar stores. I never had to - God forbid - live on the streets.

'Old Town Road' came after a period of feeling like I was out of options. I was living with my sister. She was pretty much fed up with me being there.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

We got to pray just to make it today.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.