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Blood Quotes



"Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."


"A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood."


"I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me."



"Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat."


"We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands."


"I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross."


"Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses."


"I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green."


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


"I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'"


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



"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."


"Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire."


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



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



"It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme."


"What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood."


"Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak."


"Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!"


"Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly."


"Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this."


"We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child."



"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."


"Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries."


"Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia."


"It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore."



"My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly."



"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."


"Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band."



"I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins."


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


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


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


"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."
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