“Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.” MindChildrenSelfStatesBodyIndividualMoralSacrificeYouthTrainingMotherhoodPeculiarSpheresHelplessPersonal LifeInfantSympatheticDefectiveMind BodyIndividual LifeMotherly Author:Anna Garlin Spencer
“I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.” SelfSacrificeYouthCoupleSelf Sacrifice Author:Mason Cooley
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.” IfsWayWarWholeYoungSidesMillionsCuttingGenerationsSacrificeYouthFlowerWasteDestructionDistanceAffairMythSuperiorsOfficialsSurvivorMeaninglessBoth SidesWwiFlanders Author:Robert Hughes
“Teachers give so much to the future and to youth. So, when you see somebody make that type of sacrifice towards work - just parents in general, what they got to give to their kids is a lot - I'm inspired, man, to give and help those who didn't or don't have opportunities. And even those that may have some opportunities, [to] help them achieve their dreams.” MenGivingMayHelpingDreamKidsOpportunityParentTeacherSacrificeAchieveYouthTypeInspired Author:Common
“Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.” IfsShouldHeartReasonBeautifulFacesRomanceGirlWomenLaughingSacrificeYouthAmbitionBeatsSightSilentDearTragicSoberSweetestParts Of LifeFadedSourGownsLittle WomenSpinsters Book:Little Women Source: Little Women
“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?” MindSeemsSacrificeBloodYouthGeniusFellowsAlcoholGenerosityFallenDemonRelativeDelightedIntemperance Book:Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings Source: Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings