Quotes with tag: Adversity
"Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals."
Artist: The Who
Song: Baba O'Riley
Album: Who's Next, 1971
"I'm trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents; It's hard to be legit and still pay the rent."
Artist: 2Pac
Song: Keep Ya Head Up
Album: Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z..., 1993
"Forgive, but don't forget. Girl, keep your head up."
Artist: 2Pac
Song: Keep Ya Head Up
Album: Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z..., 1993
"I came, I saw. I never conquered anything."
Artist: Smoke or Fire
Song: I'll Be Gone
Album: This Sinking Ship, 2007
"We were walking through some youth, smiling through some pain. That's alright, that's ok, let's turn the page."
Artist: Motley Crue
Song: Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
Album: Dr. Feelgood, 1989
"You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down."
Artist: Tom Petty
Song: I Won't Back Down
Album: Full Moon Fever, 1989
"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Don't stop, it'll soon be here. "
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Song: Don't Stop
Album: Rumours, 1977
"Shoot the moon...Hit or miss it makes no difference."
Artist: Face to Face
Song: Shoot the Moon
Album: How to Ruin Everything, 2002
"I brought down the sky for you but all you did was shrug."
Artist: Rise Against
Song: Audience of One
Album: Appeal to Reason, 2008
"They sleep with hornets, and they wonder why they wake up stung."
Artist: Matt Nathanson
Song: Room @ the End of the World
Album: Modern Love, 2011
"Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did."
Artist: Elton John
Song: Candle in the Wind
Album: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1973
"The price may be: to keep your heart, you'll lose your head."
Artist: The Loved Ones
Song: The Odds
Album: Keep Your Heart, 2006
"You broke the boy in me, but you won't break the man."
Artist: John Parr
Song: St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)
Album: St. Elmo's Fire Soundtrack, 1985
"And do you feel scared? I do. But I won't stop and falter."
Artist: Howard Jones
Song: Things Can Only Get Better
Album: Dream Into Action, 1985
"We ride and never worry about the fall. I guess that's just the cowboy in us all."
Artist: Tim McGraw
Song: Cowboy in Me
Album: Set This Circus Down, 2001
"I'll never be your beast of burden. My back is broad, but it's-a-hurtin."
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Song: Beast of Burden
Album: Some Girls, 1978
"'There's no time to lose,' I heard her say, 'Catch your dreams before they slip away'."
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Song: Ruby Tuesday
Album: Between the Buttons, 1967
"With the lights out, it's less dangerous."
Artist: Nirvana
Song: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Album: Nevermind, 1991
"Jesus don't love me, no one ever carried my load. I'm too young to feel this old."
Artist: Kings of Leon
Song: Cold Desert
Album: Only by the Night, 2008
"I know my kingdom awaits and they've forgiven my mistakes...I'm coming home."
Artist: Diddy
Song: Coming Home (feat. Skylar Grey)
Album: Last Train to Paris, 2010
"We raced the sunset and we almost won. We slammed the brakes but the wheels went on."
Artist: Rise Against
Song: Audience of One
Album: Appeal to Reason, 2008
"Troubles will come, and they will pass."
Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Song: Simple Man
Album: pronounced 'leh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd, 1973
"I might only have one match, but I can make an explosion."
Artist: Rachel Platten
Song: Fight Song
Album: Wildfire, 2015
"The needle on my record player has been wearing thin. This record has been playing since the day you've been with him."
Artist: New Found Glory
Song: Hit or Miss
Album: Nothing Gold Can Stay, 1999
"Only hope can keep me together."
Artist: The Police
Song: Message in a Bottle
Album: Reggatta de Blanc, 1979
"It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet."
Artist: The Police
Song: Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
Album: Ghost in the Machine, 1981
"I will go in this way, and find my own way out."
Artist: Dave Matthews Band
Song: #41
Album: Crash, 1996
"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been."
Artist: Dave Matthews Band
Song: Lie in Our Graves
Album: Crash, 1996
"Regrets collect like old friends, here to relive your darkest moments."
Artist: Florence + the Machine
Song: Shake It Out
Album: Ceremonials, 2011
"The road is long, with many a winding turn."
Artist: The Hollies
Song: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
Album: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother, 1969
"When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose."
Artist: Bob Dylan
Song: Like A Rolling Stone
Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965
"What I've felt, what I've known - never shined through in what I've shown."
Artist: Metallica
Song: The Unforgiven
Album: Metallica, 1991
"I wanna live, not just survive."
Artist: Destiny's Child
Song: Survivor
Album: Survivor, 2001
"And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had."
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Song: Dreams
Album: Rumours, 1977
"Then we played bones, and I'm yellin', 'Domino!'"
Artist: Ice Cube
Song: It Was a Good Day
Album: The Predator, 1992
"I'm not afraid to take a stand, everybody come take my hand. We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm. Just let you know that, you're not alone."
Artist: Eminem
Song: Not Afraid
Album: Recovery, 2010
"I'm through with standing in line to clubs I'll never get in. It's like the bottom of the ninth and I'm never gonna win."
Artist: Taylor Swift
Song: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Album: Red, 2012
"These breakup songs make sense again, and I really wish they didn't."
Artist: The Ataris
Song: Summer Wind Was Always Our Song
Album: End Is Forever, 2001
"It's times like these you learn to live again."
Artist: Foo Fighters
Song: Times Like These
Album: One By One, 2002
"My shangri la beneath the summer moon- I will return again."
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Song: Kashmir
Album: Physical Graffiti, 1975
"We close our eyes and the world has turned around again."
Artist: Oingo Boingo
Song: We Close Our Eyes
Album: Boi-ngo, 1987
"Life is too short, so love the one you got."
Artist: Sublime
Song: What I Got
Album: Sublime, 1996
"You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow, this opportunity comes once in a lifetime"
Artist: Eminem
Song: Lose Yourself
Album: 8 Mile: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture, 2002
"If you had one shot, or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment - Would you capture it or just let it slip?"
Artist: Eminem
Song: Lose Yourself
Album: 8 Mile: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture, 2002
"Take these broken wings, and learn to fly again - learn to live so free."
Artist: Mr. Mister
Song: Broken Wings
Album: Welcome to the Real World, 1985
"I'm on the edge, and if you told me it'd stay this way, I'd take two steps to send me anywhere but this place."
Artist: Smoke or Fire
Song: Goodbye to Boston
Album: Above the City, 2005
"Seems I'm not alone at being alone - hundred billion castaways, looking for a home."
Artist: The Police
Song: Message in a Bottle
Album: Reggatta de Blanc, 1979
"When we rise it's like strawberry fields."
Artist: Bush
Song: Glycerine
Album: Sixteen Stone, 1994
"And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain, don’t carry the world upon your shoulders."
Artist: The Beatles
Song: Hey Jude
Album: Hey Jude, 1968
"You know what they said? Well, some of it was true!"
Artist: The Clash
Song: London Calling
Album: London Calling, 1979
"Try to see it once my way."
Artist: Alice in Chains
Song: Would
Album: Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1992