quotations about blood
No distance breaks the tie of blood;
Brothers are brothers evermore.
JOHN KEBLE
The Christian Year: Second Sunday After Trinity
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
DIANA PETERFREUND
Rampant
The blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry IV, Part I
But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
BIBLE
Deuteronomy 12:23
Unless our shoes are filled with blood we
haven't walked
DANIEL ABDAL-HAYY MOORE
"Let the Snake Who Knows the Secret"
Blood will have blood.
ROBERT SOUTHEY
Madoc in Wales
They speak of blood that makes things pure,
But blood makes stains that long endure
And cause the cloth to which they cling
To seem a spoiled and dirty thing.
JAMES L. CLARK
Hourglass and Other Poems
Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Timoleon
That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
Rosmunda
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
I am in blood
Stepp'd so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
I learned to play the instruments of war ... and paint in blood.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Lost Souls
Blood is a juice of rarest quality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust
Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain.
R.D. RONALD
The Zombie Room