Quotes About Sacrifice

He's a soldier. We all fight in our own ways. And sometimes we do things we might not want to do." Otto hung his coat, then turned to look at her. "What you have to ask yourself is where you would be right now if he hadn't been there when you needed help. Remember Morocco?

but God and country, you know. You do what you must.

You know I'd give you forever, but I don't have it to give.

You want the truth? I love you so fucking much it kills me to know that I can't have you, that I can't give you the life you want, that I can't do anything except make you miserable.

There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru's saw. My father--my real father--is a limb that got axed off the family tree a long time ago now. My mother coughs and cleans phantom juices off her silver with a cloth doily. My sisters clench their knives.

And I feel certain there must be a second set of laws, inscrutable but real, that governs exactly how much a particular individual can give to and receive from another. Some hydrology of human generosity. Because there are these gifts we can make to one another freely, reflexively, with no sting of loss; and there are gifts we fight to relinquish, beg to get.

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

I needed a darkness that would have killed the others. And they needed me to keep it a secret from them.

I have worked with many people in this waking life who seem congenitally incapable of accepting any human donation of blood, marrow, sleep, criticism, praise, money, or love. Some days, I know, I'm one of them. You find that you're not a match with the donor. Or you sense that the gift will take some freedom from you. Your body rebels, maybe you don't even know why. But the donation is rejected.

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children. After

We can do nothing of any measure for Him, save loving Him. Bella teaches us that is enough. In fact, it is all that matters.

Because this is what it means to be the mothers. You're a team of your own, ready to pull your weight, ready to play with pain, ready to leave it all on the field, but you're still on the sidelines waiting for someone else's end-to-end rush, or gunning from three, or taking on four defenders himself.

In this city, you have to risk your life; go farther, and pay more to be poor.

one of the hardest things about being a mother is accepting that just because you give your kids life, that doesn't give you the right to live it for them.

And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.

Sergeant Skirata said that civvies didn't have a clue, and that it was alright for them to have lofty ideas about peace and freedom as long as they weren't the ones being shot at.

Love is all about sacrifices—big and small ones. It's only when you know how much you could give up for somebody that you know what true love really is." The whirring fan spun above them,

My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness.

The more we loved, the more we lost ourselves.

Everyone knows marriage is hard work. So if you've chosen the shackles, quit whining and get on with it.

They have suffered and risked death for their country while their commanding officers are becoming rich. 'Look at that lieutenant, how fat he is. How come the officers are all fat? None of us are fat, because we have no food.

I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.

The only way you can make a marriage work is to have both parties give 100 percent all the time." It began to make sense: you can't be calculating 50 percent in, 50 percent back. The attitude has to be one of giving freely. And if you start keeping score, you are already in trouble.

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