Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

This is a bad day for Boston, but I think if we pull together we'll get through it.

Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

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

In trying times, Coloradans do what we always have done: pull together and get it done.

Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.

The Passover story is a reminder that our unity is our strength, and that there is nothing we cannot overcome, together.

This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

The town of Gauley Bridge stands as a pattern for all those places where people are linked even in the middle of their suffering, where people fight against an evil condition so that other people need not go through the same fight.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.