Quotes about Resilience

WHO AM I?2 Who am I? They often tell me I stepped from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a Squire from his country house.

The only thing I am really clear about in the whole problem is that a 'culture' that breaks down in the face of danger is no culture.

To talk of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat is not really heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live. It is only from this question, with its responsibility towards history, that fruitful solutions can come, even if for the time being they are very humiliating.

It hurts body and soul that no day passes without the name of God being doubted and blasphemed.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

In order to get to the rainbow you must be able to deal with the rain.

The way I see it, you've gotta put up with the rain to get a rainbow.

The way I see it, if you want a rainbow you have to put up with the rain.

I look back on all that now, and I realize this helped to build my character. It helped me build my own strength. So even the bad times were good. There were good times as well as bad times. But that's how memories are made, and that's why I'm sitting here today.