Blood Quotes

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha

Tongue, Drawing, Knife

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

Time, Liberty, Tree

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles

Music, Food, Heart

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach

Life, Family, Respect

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham Lincoln

Relations, Flattery

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Country, Enough

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill

Nothing, Tears, Sweat

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston Churchill

Forget, Between, Europe

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran

Fear, Path, Perfection

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

Work, Today, Children

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
William Shakespeare

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Women, Men, May

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Person, Written

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge, Fight, Battle

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
Charlie Sheen

Heart, Brain, Different

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Bad, Battle, Soul

I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.
Charlie Sheen

Heart, Brain, Different

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Oliver Hudson

Life, Family, Nothing

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson Mandela

Rather, Dying, Leaders

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton

Sweat, Gallon, Pint

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman

Friendship, Family, Character

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
James Madison

Keep, Purpose, State

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

Freedom, Price, Cost

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin Luther

History, Alone, Moves

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley

Men, War, Another

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
Mike Tyson

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humility, Friends, Sacrifices

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Tired, Sick

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung

History, Lives, Books

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.
Henry Rollins

Change, Necessary, Cruelty

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