Quotes About Sacrifice

In order to gain their freedom, survivors may have to give up almost everything else. Battered women may lose their homes, their friends, and their livelihood. Survivors of childhood abuse may lose their families. Political refugees may lose their homes and their homeland. Rarely are the dimensions of this sacrifice fully recognized.

There is no quick and easy way to rear a child. It takes eighteen years of constant work to get one into presentable enough shape so that a college will take him or her off your hands for the winter season, and it can easily take the child on permanently.

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.

The moral had been clear: Between thinking about one's next term in office and thinking about the next generation was a difference in attitude that could save an entire world—or condemn it.

The stinging insects clung to one another and floated in clumps the size of basketballs, the ants on bottom giving their lives to save those on top. They

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Remember, the bread will be tempting, but I can resist it. It's more important to me to lose weight. If I eat the bread, I'll get momentary pleasure, but afterwards I'll feel worse.

Nothing remains to me except to be someone who has never acted in her own best interest, and who has never known a greedy passion except one: to cherish.

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

Most people who choose to do something on the basis of what other people need make themselves misera­ble.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

I must leave all that! Farewell, dear paintings that I have loved so much and which have cost me so much.

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

The charge of the Light Brigade was forever memorialized as a moment of glorious sacrifice, as needless slaughters ordered by shortsighted generals so often are.

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Let's draw straws to see who gets eaten.

Since he has nothing, since he is nothing, he can sacrifice everything.

Would you like to join your sister and the others? Or would you like a reprieve from the crowd?... Thank you, but I don't need a reprieve from my duty and I never will. There's a boast that's likely to come back like a bad cold.

Tú, Fernando, has decidido unir tu suerte a la de una mujer que nunca podrá quererte porque persigue un sueño y los sueños son fruto de nuestra imaginación, con lo que podemos adornarlos tanto como deseemos, estirarlos hasta el infinito, perseguirlos eternamente.

Su silencio le había salvado a él, pero había condenado a otros.

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

Why? It's because I love you, damn me to hell. Because I've always loved you. Because I loved you when you were with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don't deserve you, but I love you, anyway.

And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks. Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first. —from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin