Quotes About Sacrifice

I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

No roll in the hay is worth losing what I've got.

I tore the crusts off my grilled cheese sandwich and set them aside to throw out for the birds. Their motives were pure -- hunger, thirst, shelter -- and they didn't mind leftovers.

Sara lay back on the cold rock floor and beckoned for him."I'll stay in here until you're starving," she said passionately,"until you understand you can trust me,that I give to you unconditionally,out of the purest love.I'll stay here until this cage becomes a place of peace,of pleasure-not torment."Her eyebrow lifted."I will stay in here until you can't resist me.

It's terrible to be born to do something you will never be permitted to do. Especially while you watch yourself go through life doing something else.

what a thing to do—to give up your whole self for someone else. To love someone that much. To be always and forever there, no matter what. To hold on like that.

That's absolutely one of my most favorite movies, for so many reasons. I fought for that part; I wanted it badly. I took a lower salary, I did everything. Grace Kelly said, 'I'll never forgive you for playing that part. It was written for me. She [Kelly] got the prince [Rainier], I got the part.'

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Being a Christian means being a pariah, Lauren, it means not fitting in anywhere in this world.

If you keep kosher, the protagonist of your meal is not you; it is God.

The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ," she says, raising the silver chalice to our lips. Receiving from her is my favorite part of Sunday services. She always says her line with such joy, like it is the greatest thing in the world, which, of course, it is.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Being a mother means knowing the luxuriousness of giving comfort, bringing the slack body up, holding her close; she melts into your form, which is, when all is said and done, still your form.

guarantee this voyage, he had sacrificed his allegiance to his homeland, his partnership with Ruy Faleiro

By bringing in Haro, the king and his advisers would be giving up a significant amount of the profits.

spare his own life by beheading his master.

More troubling, the Indians practiced cannibalism and human sacrifice in the course of their battles

bury their own, but the enemy dead they cut up and eat. Those whom they capture they take home as slaves

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,We shall remember them.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

If you want to make something in your own image, you must sacrifice a part of yourself.

Beware of the urge to suffer. For many think that suffering is a way to pay God 'bribes to a corrupt God,' as Crowley put it, to gain His approval.