Quotes About Sacrifice

Yeah, I say. He make it up in cigarettes, sell 'em for a dime. It rot your breath, I say, but yall want to try one? Not if it make us crazy, say Sofia. It hard enough to get by without being a fool.

remembering what a struggle it had been to provide for them all on an income of only £50.00 per annum.

Maundy Thursday

how long before hope begins to eat itself? how many flags must be waved? when does a man let go of his wife's hand in order to hold his child?

To quit successfully, you need to focus on what the cigarette is doing for you. Once you understand you're not making a sacrifice, you're well on your way to freedom.

Todas las razones para dejar de fumar, hacen que sea más difícil dejarlo por otras dos razones. Primero mero, porque provocan una sensación de sacrificio. Siempre pensamos que nos están obligando a sacrificar a nuestro pequeño amigo, o apoyo, o vicio, o placer, o como quieras llamarlo

They broke their backs lifting Moloch to heaven!

with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years.

If anybody wants a statement of values - it is this, that I am ready to die for poetry and for the truth that inspires poetry - and will do so in any case - as all men, wether they like it or not-.

Being a parent doesn't get any easier, ... it just gets hard in a different way.

A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

Her locks an ancient lady gave Her loving husband's life to save; And men — they honored so the dame — Upon some stars bestowed her name. But to our modern married fair, Who'd give their lords to save their hair, No stellar recognition's given. There are not stars enough in heaven.

Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part.

ARMY, n. A class of non-producers who defend the nation by devouring everything likely to tempt an enemy to invade.

ABDOMEN, n. [1.] The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous. [2.] A shrine enclosing the object.

LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

In Physicia Baal is still worshiped as Bolus, and as Belly he is adored and served with abundant sacrifice by the priests of Guttledom.

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.

War is no place for good men.

The least a leader can do is to share the burdens of his people. I have little other comfort to give them.

Crowds rarely cheer too loudly for the defeated, no matter how hard they fought, how great their sacrifices, how long the odds. Maidens might wet themselves over cheap and worthless victories, but they don't so much as blush for 'I did my best