Quotes About Sacrifice

I will never forget the debt we owe to those who have fought to keep America safe.

Our house was repossessed and we lived in a B&B until we got a council house. It was a struggle, but Mum just got her head down, found cleaning jobs and never complained. I owe her a lot, so I now do everything she says.

I owe a lot to my parents.

We owe our law enforcement officers the highest respect.

I owe everything to the army.

I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

The brave men and women who have served - and those who continue to serve - our armed forces have selflessly sacrificed for our nation, and we owe it to them to provide the best services and protections available when they're overseas and after they return home.

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Everything in my life I owe to God, my family, the Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps.

This country, the people of our country, owe our military so much. These are the people that go out there and literally risk their lives to protect our freedom.

We really owe it to the military for what they do day in and day out that we never even hear about.

Basically, I owe my parents everything.

Every part of society should honour the debt we owe those who've served our country.

We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.

Bobsled is the first time I decided, win, lose, or draw, I was all-in for all four years. I figured if I was going to step away from a very lucrative career, I owed it to myself and my family to see this through to the very end.

I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.

Our nation truly owes a debt of gratitude to all who have served and sacrificed on behalf of this great country.

I don't see that anyone owes me anything for my service. I don't feel any sense of entitlement.

If I'm going to hand over my classic Italian sports car, and you're going to be driving it down Pacific Coast Highway with the top down, while I watch, I want to be certain that I'm adequately compensated for the pain of that vision.

My parents took a chance and sacrificed their jobs and a big move to California. And they were like, 'Are you sure you want to do this? We're literally packing up this whole house.' And I would always say, 'Yeah.' I'm six years old. And they were like, 'OK, if she wants to do this and this is her passion, then let's do it.'

You get something, but for that you make a pact with the devil.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.