Common Quote by Geraldine Brooks Download Open image “I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.” — Geraldine Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Honour I think Sacrifice Sacrifices Soldier Think Thinking War
The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just… — James Carafano Copy Share Image
I have the most utmost respect for the men and women overseas, and I only played a soldier on television. Again, I can only… — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time. — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
I do occasionally wonder, if you were to bring to life one of those young men who sacrificed themselves in what was advertised to… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The best way to honor our troops, the less than 1% of our country's population who voluntarily put their lives on the line in… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who… — Silvia Cartwright Copy Share Image
I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered. — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for “source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite, weak of… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The lieutenant colonel wondered if the high scores reflected a defect in the newly built shooting range at the women’s academy. To find out,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his eye drop… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and your fat-free… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The author of this text did not write to provoke, but merely to express a truth as he conceives it. Your own theologians have… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“So, you are happy to be a pigeon?” “Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image