Blood Quotes - Page 32

• I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

  Jesse Stuart

  Teacher, Heart, Kentucky

  Jesse Stuart (1975). “My World”, p.37, University Press of Kentucky

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• I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brrr! Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Eggs, Yellow, White

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• Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

  Roberto Bolano

  Rain, Sweat, Tears

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• And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

  Amy Tan

  Chinese, Joy Luck Club, My Family

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.222, Penguin

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• International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

  Eric Ambler

  Ink, Use, Paper

  Eric Ambler (2001). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, Vintage

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• Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

  Langston Hughes

  Powerful, Men, Black

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• Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Democracy, Pieces, Flesh

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• The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• Where I come from, family’s defined as those who don’t screw you over a pay check. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they’ll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they’re your family.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rain, Differences, Pay

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Born Of Shadows: Number 4 in series”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• From my conversations with Lance Armstrong and experiences with Lance and the team I am aware that Lance used blood transfusions from 2001 through 2005.

  George Hincapie

  Team, Used, Conversation

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• Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Tears, Teeth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!

  Steven Seagal

  Action Movie, Senators

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• Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

  Jon Kyl

  Doctors, People, Abortion

  "CNN Anchor Completely Misquotes Sen. Kyl in Soft Interview of Planned Parenthood President". www.newsbusters.org. April 8, 2011.

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• The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

  Georges Bataille

  Giving, Battle, Saint

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• But I shall not know any better then than I know now that he is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in no other way.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Son, Way, Salvation

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• The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

  H. G. Wells

  Community, Suffering, Toil

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16112, Delphi Classics

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• Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone [in his place] would go nuts.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Hands, Years

  "Vladimir Putin calls John McCain 'nuts' in outspoken attack" by Alex Spillius, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 15, 2011.

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• The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century

  Gary Taubes

  Water, Pressure, Causes

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• Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction

  Donna Tartt

  Character, Fiction

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• The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Years, Land, White

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• There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed.

  Vasily Grossman

  Children, Sadness, People

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• All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fall, Race, Suffering

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• No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Confused, Men, Keys

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• I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

  Josephine Baker

  Strong, Tired, Intelligent

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• Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Law, People

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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