Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
~By Edwin Markham ~
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.
~By Joe Shuster ~
If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
~By Byron Dorgan ~
The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
~By Ovid ~
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
~By King Hussein I ~
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
~By James Bovard ~
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.
~By Leland Stanford ~
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
~By Tojo Hideki ~
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
~By Martin Luther ~
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
~By Lewis H. Lapham ~
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
~By J. M. Roberts ~
But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face.
~By Kathleen Sebelius ~
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.
~By Dick Morris ~
As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.
~By John Warner ~
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
~By Bill Delahunt ~
What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.
~By DeForest Soaries ~
Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
~By Patrick McGoohan ~
The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
~By Marty Meehan ~
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.
~By David Wilkerson ~
I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
~By Garet Garrett ~
Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.
~By Star Jones ~
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
~By Leo Ornstein ~
Every burden is a blessing.
~By Walt Kelly ~
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
~By Charles Dickens ~
There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.
~By Shigeru Yoshida ~
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.
~By Richard Neal ~
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.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
~By Jon Porter ~
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
~By Cal Thomas ~
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
~By James Madison ~
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
~By Ruth Rendell ~
Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
~By Robert Hall ~
The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
~By Philip Sidney ~
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
~By Amy Tan ~
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
~By Robert Reich ~
No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
~By Petrarch ~
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.
~By Jim Cooper ~
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
~By James Madison ~
Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
~By Ernestine Rose ~
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
~By Bob Dylan ~
We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.
~By Shigeru Yoshida ~
Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
~By Scott Turow ~
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
~By Sun Tzu ~
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
~By John Berger ~
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
~By George Washington ~
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.
~By Brian Austin Green ~
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
~By Edmund Barton ~
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
~By Edward VIII ~
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
~By David Wilkerson ~
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
~By Brian Jones ~
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
~By Ieyasu Tokugawa ~
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.
~By Susan Estrich ~
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
~By Patti Smith ~
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.
~By Mort Walker ~
I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.
~By Birch Bayh ~
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
~By Al Roker ~
Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
~By Kathe Kollwitz ~
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.
~By Dennis Nilsen ~
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