“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.” EndsBodyCareFallChurchSacrificeChildhoodBrotherSaintDon't CareInsaneCommunismI Don't CareOrthodoxGrandfatherWillpowerFalling ApartMy GrandfatherWhatever It TakesEngravedPatriarchOrthodox Church Author:Marina Abramovic
“The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.” IndividualRaceSacrificeChildhoodPainfulPanicAvertPlacating Author:Rebecca West
“Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.” IfsWantFeelsHas BeensSometimesBitsGoalTakenSacrificeChildhoodAchieveTinyAchieving Your Goals Author:Freddy Adu
“Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.” GivingMadeParentGrowing UpGrowingSacrificeChildhoodEmotionalHonorDeserveStressIllnessInfancyHonor And RespectEmotional Stress Book:Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice Source: Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice
“To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.” HeartLongSelfJoyValuesForgetWifeSacrificeEconomicChildhoodOffersDaughterEndureScalesInnocentDirtyMaryPricelessEconomic ValueJoys Of Childhood Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.” ThinkingWritingGirlDifficultGrowingSacrificeChildhoodBecomingExpectedWomanhoodHermione Author:J. K. Rowling
“Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.” MatterHelpingHomeRememberCoursesAbilitySacrificeChildhoodConditionsTalentReturnGratitudeFortuneHelping OthersPleasantGood FortuneHarmoniousAnother LifeHome Life Author:Albert Schweitzer
“For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for the commitment of Christian children who help the Church in her task of evangelization by prayer, sacrifice and gestures of solidarity....Thousands of children meet the needs of other children, driven by the love that the Son of God, become a child, brought to the earth. I say thanks to these little ones and I pray that they will always be missionaries.” NeedsYearsChildrenLittlesHelpingEarthChristianJesusChurchPrayerSacrificeChildhoodSonPrayingCommitmentTasksDrivenThanksGesturesInitiativeSolidarityI PrayIconsBishopsNeeds Of Others Author:Pope Benedict XVI