Thomas Hardiman Quotes

I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

The greatest and best of our race have necessarily been nurtured in the bracing school of poverty—the only school capable of producing the supremely great.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation.

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

In Brazil, I didn't have it easy growing up.

When you grow up in poverty and learn how to survive it, it's something that stays with you forever.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.