hard labor Quotes

“To the pond and back—to the pond and back—nearly a full day of walking altogether. This was Nya’s daily routine seven months of the year.”

“One can ignore a poor shirtless wretch doing such labor, but none ignore a king sharing the load. Perhaps we should switch places more often. If a king is seen to assume the burden of the poorest of men, perhaps there will be those who will help him with his own load, so invisible, yet so daunting.”

“So once again I’m Ti Jean the Child, playing, sewing patches, cooking suppers, washing dishes (always kept the kettle boiling on the fire and anytime dishes needed to be washed I just pour hot hot water into pan with Tide soap and soak them good and then wipe them clean after scouring with little 5-&-10 wire scourer).”

“I worked as a puppet trained to scrub and carry, curtsy and nod.”

“The slaves labored in the fields from sunup to sundown. The owner of the slaves callin himself their Master.”

“The Prince will break himself against a new and awful labor: a place too high to reach, a thing too far to find, a burden too heavy to lift.”