Quotes About Sacrifice

I am very passionate about what I do; I give it 200 percent, and I don't think it will ever change. But I've realised that, as an actor, you have to give it your best and let it go. That's the most difficult journey, and it comes with time.

When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.

I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.

I'm gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'

You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.

My mother's no dummy. She taught the lesson about sacrificing for your kids, but also that if your kids hit it big, they better make it up to you for those years. She's gotten her sacrifices back with interest.

The governor's not allowed to drive. That's part of the life you accept.

Throughout my career, I have advocated for our service men and women, and I will continue to do all I can as governor to offer my support to those who have given us so much.

There's something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another.

What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.

A man is not capable of giving the way a woman gives. She is stronger. When a woman sacrifices, it lends her grace and beauty.

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

My own father and grandfather served in the Army.

I have family that are vets of the military. My grandfather served as well.

I think everyone in the band has had someone that's served in their family. I wouldn't say that anybody has a military family, but both of my grandfathers were in the military.

My grandfather Urey was my hero. He worked three jobs. He had a dry cleaner's factory job in the day and a dry cleaner's factory job at night and when that was done with that, he mopped floors in a restaurant.

Luckily, my grandfather was willing to sacrifice everything for me.

My grandmother raised her nine kids and raised my mom's three.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

My grandparents and my parents came over from Cuba with nothing to their name just for a chance of freedom and opportunity.

My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise.