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- Nov 07, 2020
Blood Quotes
Quotes where blood signals health, courage, or restraint.
This collection ranges from plain medical observations about blood pressure and health to older, blunter idioms equating a lack of blood with a lack of nerve. A few lines also touch on refusing power if it comes at too high a cost. For more on staying grounded through hardship, see Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.
- Grains
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- Nov 07, 2020
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.
- Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
- Pollution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.
- Saves
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sweat saves blood.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I am a basketball player going out there to compete, I am going to try to win no matter what. That is just in my blood.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020