Blood Quotes

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

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

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

Athletics is in my blood.

Politics is a blood sport.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

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

I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.

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

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.

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

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

Boxing is show-business with blood.

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

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

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.