Parents Sacrifices Quotes

#1. I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.

Rick Scott

#2. When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit.

Zulay Henao

#3. Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.

Dominique Moceanu

#4. Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design ... fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

Edward Tufte

#5. My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#6. When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#7. Behold!" I bellowed. "'Tis a foul beast of the nether-hells. Stand behind me and I shall slay it!"
"Oh, Alcatraz," Bastille breathed. "Thou art awesomish and manlyish.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.

Esther Rolle

#10. When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.

Jonathan Horton

#11. The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

Confucius

#12. Memory deforms reality, which nevertheless is formed as reality only in memory

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#13. Godliness before giftedness.

Lesley Ramsay

#14. You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

Albert Brooks

#15. Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.

Henry Miller

#16. You know, you want to be a success. You want people to know who you are.

Elizabeth Hurley

#17. When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.

Eliza Coupe

#18. But Master is happy. I have seen him. He laughs and smiles. These reactions are rare ... very rare for him.

E.L. James

#19. It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never grateful ... The 'sacrifices' you made were not for them, they were for you.

Billie Burke

#20. Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

Bennie Thompson

#21. I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.

Tom Brady

#22. me to see the contents. Was she giving me a gift, like she gave Bart anything he wanted? He was the

V.C. Andrews

#23. Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

Simon Van Der Meer

#24. Here is the rule of thumb: if you aren't giving anything up, it isn't moral and it isn't courage. Stumbles, sacrifices, inner struggle, false starts and wrong turns, conflict with parents and peers-these are some of the signs of the genuine article The way you know it's real is if it hurts.

William Deresiewicz

#25. My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education ... because they were both druids.

Milton Jones

#26. My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

Tony Parsons

#27. I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

Kate Hudson

#28. I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

Tadashi Shoji