Quotes About Sacrifice

You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you.

When you have a child, you really understand what it means to love, to have something to be selfless for. I think that elevates you. It elevates your consciousnesses, your level of thinking, your art and the way you approach it - everything.

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

It's a sacrifice for me. It's not really something I want to do. I don't love the idea of being a U.S. senator; I love the idea of being a mother.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

I do not want to send anybody else's child to war.

If you talk to any senior Army leaders, you'll find one, if not all, their children are in the Army.

Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

When my parents separated, I became the breadwinner of the family.

I stopped drinking on 24 September 1986.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

I've served my country.

Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.

I would like America to remember those who have served and those that we've lost and their families.

I am proud of my service and proud of those who served alongside me. But war is about more than service and sacrifice - it's about winning.

I served my country; I did that. I was in the C.I.A., and I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I love this country with every part of my body, and I was willing to risk my body and my family for it. But I wake up in a country I don't understand anymore.

My mother served in the Armed Forces.

My father served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers for many years.

I've been overtly and covertly serving America since I started in the armed services.

So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about.

I love serving this country, and I miss serving this country.