Quotes About Sacrifice

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

When we can give back to the real heroes, that's what I find rewarding.

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

Life of an actor is not his or hers: it's everyone's life. Nothing is private; nothing is personal. If you're doing great in terms of work, that's the price you've to give.

But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge.

I like nothing more than a character sacrificing himself or herself for the sake of others. That's drama at its finest for me.

Jules has always put herself last I guess.

I would not hesitate for a nanosecond to step in front of a bullet, to do anything to give my life for my children.

My grandmother would hide bread for when maybe another war would come. You had to be ready.

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

I believe it is our duty in Congress to provide those who have served our nation with the highest level of care, and anything less is a dishonor to their sacrifice.

The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life

Christ died to save us, not from suffering, but from ourselves; not from injustice, far less from justice, but from being unjust. He died that we might live—but live as He lives, by dying as He died who died to Himself.

I am a beast until I love as God doth love.

From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one.