Quotes About Sacrifice

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

Of course, it has never paid much.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

I'm not shooting every day of the week, which allows me to fly home to be with my kids for the weekends. That's how I keep it moving.