Historical Hardship Quotes

I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

No nation, no country has lived through such hardship and bloodshed as befell the Russian people.

The long historian of my country's woes.

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

In modern times, dogs may be pampered, but historically, a dog's life wasn't much to bark about. Hence a dog's chance is a small chance.

For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.

It really helps me if I think back to what our first families up here went through because, my goodness, they really had very tough times.

But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.

Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.

I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time.