#sacr

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#flowers #garden #gardening #mother #sacrifices

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#his #industry #instead #judgment #only

The lines of fate on my hand, once so bright, faded into echo. The memory of his face in my dreams, once so luminous passed into shadow. ↗

— Farrah Naseem

#farrah-naseem #fate #sacred #dreams

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#both sides #civil #civil war #country #displayed

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children. ↗

— Tracy K. Smith

#california #called #children #exactly #five

I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed. ↗

— Pauline Frederick

#had #i #i think #kind #sacrificed

The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#approach #benefit #group #just #needs

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken. ↗

— Misty May-Treanor

#gold #gold medals #i #made #many

The body is a sacred garment. ↗