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Quotes About Burden

We can all agree that we need to be helping small businesses. All of us can agree that the cost of higher education is too high, and college debt is too big of a burden for young people.
~ Ilhan Omar
Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.
~ Robert Reich
If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.
~ Deborah Ellis
I grew up around a whole bunch of girls, and one thing I realized is what they had on their plate was very different than what I had on mine. The things girls are made to be responsible for is a heavy burden - take care of your younger siblings, do good in school, have some extracurriculars. The pressure is intense.
~ Jason Reynolds
My sister is humble, never wants to be a burden, and always tries to shoulder as much as she can on her own.
~ Ed Henry
We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
~ Earl Blumenauer
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
~ Daniel Defoe
The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
~ A. E. Housman
Trump's enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned.
~ Miranda Devine
To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.
~ Aldrich Ames
If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?
~ William Whiting Borden
The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.
~ Ricky Williams
At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.
~ Mort Walker
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
~ Saint Augustine
Listen to me, Cammie. There are things in this life…in this world…There are things that you don't want to remember." - Rachel Morgan
~ Ally Carter
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
~ B. B. King
I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had no control over and could not hope to change. It was, she had begun to understand, integral to the very nature of belief, of faith. A need that could not be answered by the self was then given over to someone or something greater than oneself, and this form of surrender was a lifting of a vast, terrible weight.
~ Steven Erikson
People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had no control over and could not hope to change.
~ Steven Erikson
Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome
~ Steven Erikson
You are young,' said Rise. 'There is much for you to bear, but the gift of youth means you scarcely feel its weight. It distresses me to think that you are growing old before your time.
~ Steven Erikson
Leisure is not a relevant notion. Consider the weariness that often afflicts your kind, late in their lives. Then multiply that countless times. This is the burden of being long-lived.
~ Steven Erikson
We are all worthwhile, sir, once we assume the burden of forgiveness and the effort of absolution.
~ Steven Erikson
An unwillingness. I can carry no one else's burden - not even for a moment. We are all pulled inside ourselves now, each alone...
~ Steven Erikson