Blood Quotes

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. (Thomas Jefferson)
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. View quote
George S. Patton
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He 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. View quote
Will Cuppy
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. View quote
Sallust
Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else. View quote
Ayrton Senna
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. View quote
Andrew Jackson
The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. View quote
James Shirley
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. (Georg Büchner)
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. View quote
Tertullian
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. View quote
Norman Mailer
All empires are created of blood and fire. View quote
Pablo Escobar
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. View quote
E. M. Forster
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust. View quote
John Webster
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. View quote
Gene Fowler
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. (Henry Rollins)
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
I am inclined to believe that the sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. View quote
James A. Garfield
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. View quote
F. H. Bradley
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. View quote
George Gissing