#blood

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

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

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#blood #crushes #globe #imperialism #like

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#category #doctors #fallen #frightened #i

But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#blood #cells #cord #could #cure

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#avoid #bloodshed #i #said #stand

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country. ↗

— Reginald Maudling

#bloody #bring #country #god #large