Burden

Famous quotes containing the word burden:

“Then she took up her burden of life again
Saying only, “It might have been.””
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.”
—Susan Chira (20th century)