#blood

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#blood #civilization #morals #our #position

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#believe #blood #dance #heart #i

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#contribute #died #drop #dynamic #even

You was talkin' out of yer head last night, too," chortles Davy. "No one's gonna fancy me. I'm gonna be ugly and no on'es gonna fancyme!" he mimics, mincing about the hammock. "You are such a rum cove, Jacky, for thinkin' such things when yer just about beat t' death! Fancy me? Fancy me? Jacky, no one's gonna fancy us, we're all gonna end up lookin' like Snag!" "Which is how a salty dog sailor's supposed to look," says Willy with a firm nod. "And you're halfway there, Jack-o!" crows Tink. Ah, the sweet comfort of friends. ↗

— L.A. Meyer

#death

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

— Frank Langella

#dracula #each #food #help #liquor

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#being #belief #believes #bit #blood

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blood #deep #description #experience #explanation

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#between #blood #bones #creative #design

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blood #changes #didactic #essential #function

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. ↗

— Amy Levy

#creature #flesh #husbands #lover #made