Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining…

“Maybe it was just my life, my strange and always stranger life, taking all the life out of me.”

— Catherine Lacey

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

— Peter Charles Newman

There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the…

— Tony McCoy

One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife…

— Joyce Maynard

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

— Anne Lamott

“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to…

— Anne Lamott

You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have…

— Anne Lamott

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and…

— Anne Lamott

To me, draining the swamp means draining it of pandering and opportunism and filling it in with the fertile soil of freedom.

— Madison Cawthorn

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

— Nick Park

Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're…

— Morris Chestnut

To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.

— Megan Rapinoe

Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience…

— Tim Field

There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful…

— Frederick Lenz