Dawn Steel Quotes

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

I've been penniless. I've had to struggle a bit. But now I enjoy thinking about that because it just makes me feel better about my achievements.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

I know what it is to have nothing.

When I was around 25 years old, I lost everything and was a complete dirtbag.

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.

For me and Washington, it was like I was in a dark tunnel, and the light was really far away.

Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

I guess that's why they call it Hell.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

The most wretched have yet hope.

When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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