Quotes About Blood

This country's passion for property is built into the blood, a current as huge and primal as desire. Centuries of being turned out on the roadside at a landlord's whim, helpless, teach your bones that everything in life hangs on owning your home.

In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with second-hand blood for the hyenas to snuffle up, but they come in useful enough that you want to stay on their good side.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Directly above her head, blood peppered the ceiling, a "castoff" spray that permeated the pimply white paint. It looked a little as though someone had taken a straw filled with red paint and aimed it high. But then again, wasn't that essentially what happened when you opened a vein? Not the creative sort, the ones beneath

There were a number of spots on the backsplash as well, behind the oven, which might have easily been the remnants of a fat, juicy steak, but if they tested the blood Zoe was pretty sure they'd find human DNA. The spatters had been there about a week now. Neither she nor Chris had bothered to wipe them off—Zoe, because

Directly above her head, blood peppered the ceiling, a "castoff" spray that permeated the pimply white paint. It

Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood.

Dwayne is right: blood does call to blood. I was always waiting for hers to beckon to mine, but I never considered that it would be my blood that would call upon hers.

The blood of the setting sun suddenly spilled out on the western horizon like that of millions of people who have died in some violent war that has broken out between Earth and Heaven. Suddenly the war ended in defeat and all-embracing darkness descended and pervaded all four corners of the globe, wiping out the sadness and shyness that was in her eyes.

Se dice que un león, cuando ha probado la sangre y la carne humana, ya no quiere comer otra cosa.

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.

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.

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood.

The blood pigment haemoglobin is a compound which can be split by diverse methods into its constituents, pigment and protein.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

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

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

On a sub, you know, there's no place for things to drain to. The survivors claimed that the blood was knee-deep all through the submarine.

The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.

could jab my thumb with it and draw blood. The brown smear across the top of this page can be tested in any twenty-first-century DNA lab. Compare