Quotes About Sacrifice

'The Lady' is an incredible love story about how a family was cut off from each other, about sacrifice, about the ability to put the needs of million of people before your own.

I can't imagine a more loyal employee to have than somebody who's laid their life on the line for their country.

The Lakers are my life.

America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that can't be.

I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We believe we're honoring our children by working for peace.

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

There's men and women who sacrifice and do so much for us so I can go out and play a game of golf and live my life under freedom.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

I think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say.

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation's accolade.

In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon the acts of courage, large and small, I have seen in the men and women with whom I served, and the countless others I met or have come to know through the years.

The sacrifice of the brave men and women of the military and their families allows us to be safe, and we are grateful.

We can't ask the men and women of this country to go do things for us and then, when they get home, forget about them. It's not part of the deal.

The men and women in the Armed Forces, that's what I always think about and what I teach my kids about. We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families.

I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.

Contrary to what most of Hollywood will tell you, the men and women of our armed forces are the best among us. Not only because of how they serve, but because they are able to find the best in each other... And they are able to encapsulate the best in all of us.

The men and women of our emergency services are the very best of us.

Generations of American men and women have served our country in the Armed Forces and sacrificed to protect our freedoms.