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Burden Quotes - Page 4

You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.

You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.

Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

"Road to Riches". Interview with Mishal Husain, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2003.

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Homer (1806). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.290

I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

"Humorist John Hodgman Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Carl Kasell and Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.

Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.257, Penguin

The burden of the incommunicable.

'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 1

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

Thomas A Kempis, Wyatt North (1617). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.55, Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio, April 28, 1373.