Famous Blood Quotes

"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms." - Andrew Jackson


"The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears." - Charles F. Kettering


"Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day." - Charles Kingsley


"No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody." - Martin Luther


"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much." - Don Marquis


"Blood alone moves the wheels of history." - Benito Mussolini


"The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito." - Austin O'Malley


"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood." - George S. Patton


"Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!" - Padraic Pearse


"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." – Tertullian

Mythology and religion
Due to its importance to life, blood is associated with a large number of beliefs. One of the most basic is the use of blood as a symbol for family relationships; to be "related by blood" is to be related by ancestry or descendance, rather than marriage. This bears closely to bloodlines, and sayings such as "blood is thicker than water" and "bad blood", as well as "Blood brother". Blood is given particular emphasis in the Jewish and Christian religions because Leviticus 17:11 says "the life of a creature is in the blood." This phrase is part of the Levitical law forbidding the drinking of blood, due to its practice in idol worship by surrounding societies.

Mythic references to blood may be connected to the childbirth or menstruation, both bloody but life-affirming events, as opposed to the blood of injury or death.

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