Quotes About Sacrifice

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.

In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!

We give up the fort when there's not a man left to defend it.

To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War, ' as it was called until 1939.

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head

I will tell him that I've always thought he was a monster. And that I want to be his bride

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.