Blood Quotes

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Athletics is in my blood.

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

I love 'True Blood!'

I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.

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

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

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

I owe my life to blood donors. I'm forever grateful to people who donate.

My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

Want of pluck shows want of blood.

I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it.

I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.

Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.