Quotes About Sacrifice

We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius...

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed... licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.

Peace is the only adequate war memorial.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

The traditional sacrifices of a writer are soul and sleep.

Writing is both a sacrificing and a saving of soul.

One ought to write only when one leaves a piece of one's flesh in the inkpot each time one dips one's pen.

Vote like you understand that someone died for your right to do so.

If you cain't bear no crosses, you cain't wear no crown.

Is't death to fall for Freedom's right? He's dead alone who lacks her light!

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in the world, since the payment is pure love.

Our country will remain "the land of the free" only so long as it is "the home of the brave."

Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity.

Criminal Minds, Believer: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

Well, certainly, it seems that an Officer of Volunteers has many responsibilities... all work and no pay...

Angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers.

Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Sometimes, it means that you love them enough to let them go because you want them to be happy, and you realized that you're just not able to be happy together.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Alimony — The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.