Bruised Quote by John Smith

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

“I have a friend who feels sometimes that the world is hostile to human life--he says it chills us and kills us. But how…

— Gary Snyder

But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in…

— Adam Smith

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of…

— Richard Steele

“It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than that of a great man, condemned to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted…

— T. Babington Macaulay

With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our…

— Zebulon Pike

“On re-entering cultivated lands, the agitation, perplexity, and turmoil of civilization oppressed and suffocated us; the air seemed to fail us, and we felt…

— Évariste Régis Huc

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.

— Mark Wahlberg

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

— Mary Mapes Dodge

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

— Bruno Sammartino

“To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent…

— Walter Scott