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Quotes About Sacrifice

If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.
~ Robert Crandall
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
~ Charles de Gaulle
I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.
~ Kristen Stewart
As an actor, you travel so much. It isn't great for a marriage.
~ Mila Kunis
I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.
~ Bonnie Hammer
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.
~ Farid al-Din Attar
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--
~ George Orwell
No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.
~ Martin Luther
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
~ Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.
~ Robert Herrick
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
~ Khalil Gibran
Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
~ Vance Havner
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.
~ Douglas Adams
Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.
~ Greg Koukl
But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.
~ Dana Gould
It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.
~ Luigi Orione
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.
~ Andrew of Crete
My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.
~ Jacob Grimm
Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
~ Phil Jackson