Ox Blood Quotes

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

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

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

where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

If you willing to put in that sweat! Blood! And tears! I'm telling you! You can have, be and do what you want!

Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.

You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

There is no place to hide but in the blood of the Lamb.

In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

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

Blood's not thicker than money.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!

Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

Blood is a very special juice.

The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.

In order to make a great, epic movie, you have to have the four Bs - babes, bullets, blood and blades.

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

All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.

Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.

With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

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.

To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.