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Quotes About Red

I wish for my child to have a mind as stark and wild as the winter, a spirit as clear and fine as my window, and a heart as red and open as my wounded hand.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A girl who never smiles has such power—what men will do to turn up but one corner of her mouth! She already wears her red war-gown and her circlet of cinnabar poppies. They bring out the color in her grimace.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Firebirds are such frustating quarry. One minute it's all fiery tail feathers and red talons and the next, nothing but ash and a sore seat.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
There was malachite green, and red; the intense red known as worm scarlet—tola'at shani in Hebrew—extracted from tree-dwelling insects, crushed up and boiled in lye. Later, when alchemists learned how to make a similar red from sulfur and mercury, they still named the color "little worm"—vermiculum. Some things don't change: we call it vermilion even today.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Come. For the sun has crept down in its cave; its warm red breath has blown away.
~ Gertrud Kolmar
We have to remember that Xi, head of a divided Communist Party, has no faction he can call his own. People often say he heads the "Princelings," but that term merely describes the "second Red generation" or "Red Nobility": the sons and daughters of either former leaders or current serving high officials.
~ Gordon Chang
Arizona looks like a battle on Mars.
~ Author Unknown
Dark red cherries in a ripe Bowl of Summer
~ Terri Guillemets
Blood is blood and it's all red. Show me what's in your heart and in your eyes.
~ James Frey
Silence is golden...but in times of tyranny it is blood red
~ Parag Tipnis
...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because it was red.
~ Katheryn Winnick
Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men.
~ Rickey Medlocke
The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
~ John Burroughs
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
~ Arthur Machen
I see a red door and i want it painted black.
~ The Rolling Stones
We went outside to practice another lockdown on the playground. Wayne brought along the red emergency bag, which held a key and a whistle and a walkie-talkie.
~ Nicholson Baker
The wolf thought to himself, what a tender young creature. What a nice plump mouthful -Little Red Cap
~ Nicola Baxter
Many Halloweens ago, he was just a tiny red puppy. I wanted to take Clifford out trick-or-treating. But the mask and hat didn't fit. He was not a happy clown.
~ Norman Bridwell
I tried dressing him as an angel. While I was putting my fairy costume on, he ate his halo. Then I found the perfect costume for my small red puppy. Clifford was the littlest ghost I had ever seen.
~ Norman Bridwell
In the darkness, a red lightsaber rises from its hilt.
~ Chuck Wendig
Lust, I suspect, wears repatent stilettos, that feather boa and not much else. Maybe glossy red lipstick.
~ Claire Cross
Make the letters blockier, so you can see it, put some red in there. He read an article that said red was a color favored by nature to make animals take notice, and you had to be part animal to live in New York City. Made sense to use red in signs, Pepper thought. But no one was asking him.
~ Colson Whitehead
The fire had burnt so low that it was only a vague red glow in the night...out of the dark his voice came...
~ Vikram Chandra