Rick Riordan Quotes About Sacrifice

Quotes about: Sacrifice

• Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path---ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.

  Rick Riordan

  Sweet, Pain, Hate

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.270, Penguin UK

• The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important." "It was probably important to her.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Real, Sacrifice

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

• True success requires sacrifice.

  Rick Riordan

  Sacrifice, True Success

• your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.

  Rick Riordan

  Loyalty, Cutting, Loss

• i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.

  Rick Riordan

  Sacrifice, Rocks, Sea

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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