Burden Quotes

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

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.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

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.

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.

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

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.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

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.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

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.