Blood Quotes

• The boy in war is, to an extent found in almost no other form of work, inextricably bound up with the men and materials of his labor. … He is a fragment of American earth wedged into an open hillside in Korea and reworked by its unbearable sun and rain. … He is a light brown vessel of red Australian blood that will soon be opened and emptied across the rocks and ridges of Gallipoli from which he can never again become distinguishable.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Work
  • War
  • Light

• What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood of your brother." The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.

  

  Allan Boesak
  • Brother
  • Blood
  • Bond

• Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.

  

  Arturo Graf
  • Plant
  • Civilization
  • Grows

• I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'

  

  David Dreman
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Paraphrase

• We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Should

• And everywhere there were parents – parents mouse-like, parents aggressive, parents ostentatious, parents modest, parents subdued, parents animated: a growing rout lured together under the radiant porcelain sky – and for what? the headmaster wondered. It was improbable that they enjoyed themselves. It was improbable, even, that their offspring enjoyed themselves. And yet there was a glamour about it all which stirred the blood, and the headmaster himself, as he contemplated the spectacle, was not immune.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Parents
  • Enjoyed
  • Wondered

• Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blood
  • Poison
  • Sassy

• The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout. The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport - there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age - stirred his blood.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Athlete
  • Greek
  • Sport

• You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is great when you’re in your 30s. If you’re in your 20s and already talking about that, I don’t think you will achieve your goals. If you really want to build a powerful career, and make an impact, then you have to be prepared to put in blood, sweat, and tears.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Career
  • Balance
  • Goals

• We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.

  

  Bill Bright
  • Rights
  • Price
  • Lord Jesus Christ

• Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars.

  

  William Davis
  • Products
  • Beans
  • Carbohydrates

• I was numb and I had lots of swollen lymph nodes, my heart was hurting and I had blood clots in my arm and leg.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Heart
  • Blood
  • Lymph

• I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Nothing
  • Dirt
  • Bone

• The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Blood
  • Advantage
  • Bastion

• It's like a disease, ... It gets in your blood.

  

  William Floyd
  • Blood
  • Disease

• Blood will have blood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blood

• There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

  

  Sandra Fluke
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Asking

• Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Cost
  • Propaganda
  • Agony

• It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Rain
  • Blood
  • Fallen

• Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Mother
  • Faith
  • Trip

• I like porterhouse steak, rib-eyes and New York strip. This works for me because I have very low cholesterol and low blood pressure. It's not good for everyone; you have to talk to your doctor about that. I also eat fish and cheese. I like clean food prepared as simply as possible.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Eye
  • Doctors
  • Cheese

• Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.

  

  Walter Besant
  • Creature
  • Lawyers
  • VAampire-bat

• Those who criticize, they desire our blood not our pain. But still I must achieve I must seek truth in all things. I must endure for the power I was sent forth, for the world for the children. But have mercy, for I've been bleeding a long time now.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Desire
  • Pain
  • Blood

• My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation.

  

  Chief Blackfish
  • Son
  • Flesh
  • Native

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