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Quotes About Red

A digital clock punched red electronic minutes into the silence.
~ John Sandford
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
~ John Steinbeck
She watched his great red happiness, and it was not light as Samuel's happiness was light. It did not rise out of his roots and come floating up. He was manufacturing happiness as cleverly as he knew how, molding it and shaping it.
~ John Steinbeck
The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Climb ye the heights of liberty and cease not in well doing until you have planted the banner of the Red, the Black and the Green on the hilltops of Africa.
~ Marcus Garvey
In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon...
~ Unknown
The sword sweated red; the swordsman regretted nothing.
~ Unknown
Ladybugs all dressed in red Strolling through the flowerbed. If I were tiny just like you I'd creep among the flowers too!
~ Maria Fleming
What sapwent through that little threadto make the cherry red!
~ Marianne Moore
Firewater Sometimes I think how alcohol's a marvelous solvent, can remove red people from a continent, turn bronze to guilt. What was DuPont's old motto—Better things for better living through chemistry? You take potatoes from Peru, barley from Palestine, maize from Mexico, sugar cane from
~ Unknown
The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.
~ Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.
~ Charles Dickens
Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?"
~ Arlo Guthrie
He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I'm exhausted."
~ Unknown
Che?" I asked. "Odd name for a dog." "Why, vato? What else could I name him? He's a red dog.
~ Unknown
All the action adventure girls have red hair," he said. "Whenever it is an independent girl, not a sidekick person, when she has her own mind or does as good as the guys, she has red hair.
~ Unknown
On Satan the color red is one thing; on women, it is altogether another
~ Unknown
But any idea of plainness is simply contrary to the fancy color that is red.
~ Unknown
There are wolves in the night. The soldiers would say that, when I was a girl. My uncles and brothers in war. My friends. Raising me on the battlefield because there was no where else to go. There are wolves, they would say. And there are stories about wolves and girls. Girls in red. All alone in the woods. About to get eaten up. Wolves and girls. Both have sharp teeth.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
When these early settlers hunted, they would leave red herring along their trail because the strong smell would confuse wolves, which is the origin of the expression red herring, meaning "a false trail.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Poncho was in a red mood slanging with rage and needed to cook himself out of it, while shoving handfuls of salted peanuts down his gullet and slurping ice cold Fanta
~ Unknown
He's sitting casually at my kitchen table peeling the skin off an applewith a pocket knife, a red apple that he has quite obviously appropriated from my fruit bowl, might I add.
~ Unknown
The Apostle's robes billowed even though there was no wind. Pastor Bligh's robes were white and purple. Lavender and bleach. Detergent and antiseptic. The Apostle's black and red robes blew with flesh and blood, terror and magnificence.
~ Marlon James