Ted Cruz Quotes

My dad grew up in Nicaragua in his teenage years, then immigrated to the United States.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it's good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

To the stars through thorns.

I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.

The war made me stronger; it was a very hard time for me and my family. I don't want to drag that with me forever, but I don't want to forget about it, either.

I've lived through a lot of dark environments one way or another while growing up and that has influenced my songwriting.

Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble.

My dad was a street kid for seven years - he was homeless.

My dad was trying to prepare me for what he went through as a kid.

I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and conflict.

On both sides of my family, my grandparents grew up in total poverty and came to California during the Great Depression. The only way they were able to work their way out of that was by joining the military, which is how they both went on to be able to go to college.

My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.

Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!