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Quotes About Sacrifice

Before he left, Shackleton ordered the three youngest puppies killed
~ Alfred Lansing
McNeish's tomcat, which had mistakenly been named Mrs. Chippy
~ Alfred Lansing
Mrs. Chippy some distance from camp and shot them without a qualm
~ Alfred Lansing
Into the jaws of death,Into the mouth of hellRode the six hundred.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do and die.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of deathRode the six hundred.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The great world's altar-stairs,That slope through darkness up to God.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.
~ Alfred Stuart, Jr.
There will no man do for your sake, I think,What I would have done for the least word said.I had wrung life dry for your lips to drink,Broken it up for your daily bread.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet..
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Anyone who loves us Ahlul Bayt must be ready to face a life of austerity.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.
~ Ali Smith
L'amore se ne infischia del soldo, l'amore è più caldo del caldo. Che sia vinta la guerra o sia persa, è l'amore che il mondo attraversa. L'amore non fa rima né ha ragioni, l'amore rende pazzo chi lo ha. L'amore sopravvive alle stagioni […]. L'amore vince i giochi, ogni contesa, che scoppi sulla terra o dentro al mare. Nessuna risorsa è meglio spesa, di quelle bruciate per amare.
~ Ali Smith
I penetrated to the heart of the forest, he says, sacrificed myself, and brought back—you. He
~ Ali Smith
Month of sacrifice and month of playfulness. Month of restoration, of fertility-festivity. Month when the earth and the buds are already open, the creatures asleep for the winter have woken and are already breeding, the birds have already built their nests, birds that this time last year didn't exist, just bringing to life the birds that'll replace them this time next year. Spring-cuckoo month, grass-month.
~ Ali Smith
some men know from birth that they are expendable they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either
~ Alice Borchardt
You've read George Eliot till you're not comfortable unless you're renouncing something.
~ Alice Brown
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
~ Alice Duer Miller
The following is a narrative poem. It became a huge success at the time of its publication, and inspired the 1944 movie The White Cliffs of Dover. It is about an American girl who visits London just before the First World War, marries, and stays in England during the succeeding years, including the start of the Second World War.
~ Alice Duer Miller
When Johnnie went to France. Such a tame ending To a great romance-- Two lonely women With nothing much to do But get to know each other; She did and I did, too. Mornings at the Rectory, Learning how to roll Bandages, and always Saving light and coal. Oh, that house was bitter As winter closed in, In spite of heavy stockings And woolen next the skin. I was cold and wretched, And never unaware Of John more cold and wretched In a trench out there.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Don't Dare take your college as a matter of course- because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you.
~ Alice Duer Miller BC 1889
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
~ Alice Hoffman