Quotes About Sacrifice

Life was an enormous rucksack so impossibly heavy that, even though it meant losing everything, it was infinitely easier to leave all baggage here on the roadside and walk on into the blackness.

True love isn't easy but it must be fought for, because once you find it, it can never be replaced." —Unknown

Carley saw two forces in life--the destructive and constructive. On the one side greed, selfishness, materialism: on the other generosity, sacrifice, and idealism.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Give me your pain, love,' he said holding her against the steady beat of his heart. 'Let me take it for you.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.

Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

Dis love! Dat's just whut's got us uh pullin' and haulin' and sweatin' and doin' from can't see in de mornin' till can't see at night. Nanny to Janie

A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it.

Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain't got nothin' tuh do wid love.

Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me. Freedom found me wid a baby daughter in mah arms, so Ah said Ah'd take a broom and a cook-pot and throw up a highway through de wilderness for her. She would expound what Ah felt. But somehow she got lost offa de highway and next thing Ah knowed here you was in de world.

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped.

But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods--come and gone with the sun. She got nothing from Jody except what money could buy, and she was giving away what she didn't value.

Dance is my passion and love, and I am not abandoning it for anything.

My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but my mom said 'No, it's too dangerous to go abroad by yourself.' So I gave up.

I would have come to play at United for absolutely nothing if I'd been given the chance - everyone I played with at the time would have done that, too.

It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.

I have such admiration and respect for the military and military families.

The End of the Affair is almost like a play.

The kind of life I led really affected my family.

I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.

My dad worked all day. He would get up at five in the morning and didn't stop working until 10 at night, every day the same.