William Butler Yeats Quotes, Blood Quotes, Wings Quotes

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Blood Quotes , Wings Quotes

What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Heart Quotes , Blood Quotes

Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Skeletons Quotes , Blood Quotes

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Blood Quotes , Punishment Quotes

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Blood Quotes , House Quotes

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Blood Quotes , People Quotes

PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Country Quotes , Blood Quotes

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Blood Quotes

I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blood Quotes , Soul Quotes

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , Blood Quotes

What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Heart Quotes , Blood Quotes

Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Stars Quotes , Blood Quotes

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Blood Quotes , Hands Quotes

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Blood Quotes , Fields Quotes

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Brother Quotes , Blood Quotes

I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact that we are related by blood (...)

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Blood Quotes , Chinese Quotes

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Blood Quotes , Flames Quotes

I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Blood Quotes , Boxing Quotes

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Blood Quotes , Heaven Quotes

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Past Quotes , Blood Quotes