“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.” MenPastNationsResponsibilityGoneBloodTearsDutyFitLaborMovedEvery ManTriumphSweatCitizenshipAnguishPerilForefathersMoved OnSweat And TearsBlood And Sweat Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates the ebbing blood of the past, of a vigorous and vividly hued past.” LittlesStillsSometimesPastUsedHouseBloodStreetsIsolatedVigorousCemeterySecluded Author:Clarence John Laughlin
“Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. Because history is long term. But today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.” LongTwoTodayPastTermBloodWeekRevolutionEvolutionSpreadLong TermTwo Weeks Author:Marjane Satrapi
“When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove - The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.” YearsFirstsStillsAgeLastsPastPleasureBloodKissingWingsRemembranceChillMemorialSweetestDoveFirst Kiss Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.” PastStarsWaterBloodSeaDyingLateAncientPatternsAtmosphereCompositionCarbonGalaxyLiving ThingsMetabolismIons Author:George Wald
“I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory” ThinkingKnowsPastStrongMemoriesCommonBloodExpressionGeniusLovelyGoldenRetrieversGolden Retrievers Book:Blood Memory Source: Blood Memory
“We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.” PastCompanyBlood Author:Warren Buffett
“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too.” MenTwoFeelingsPastRememberHoursPowerfulBloodStrangeFallenLinksUniformsGob Author:William Manchester
“Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.” CarePastMovingEnergyForceAbilityProgressBloodCallingPromiseCommitmentTake CareStealingBlockMoving ForwardVampireAccomplishmentAgreementMomentumIncompleteYour MomSapDraining Author:Jeff Olson
“I can't blame anyone for being pessimistic when they look around, after all the blood spilled and energy spent to gain ground for working people in the past, and see it all happening again. I wasn't pointing a finger when I wrote the book, but sometimes the message is there even when you aren't actively trying to be the messenger.” PeopleTryingLooksI CanBookSometimesPastEnergyBloodMessagesHappeningsGainsBlameFingersPointingPessimisticMessengersHappening AgainPeople From The Past Author:James Vance
“We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be wrong. They want to return to the nation-state. Sometimes there is even a blood and soil rhetoric that for me is starkly reminiscent of the interwar years of the past century, whose demons we are still all too familiar with.” PeopleWantYearsHas BeensStillsSometimesStatesPastNationsNumbersGrowingBloodCenturyReturnEuropeHistoricalDecadesFamiliarDemonSoilRhetoricOver The PastDeclaringJuncture Author:Martin Schulz
“In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.” YearsArtPastCareersWrittenBloodOppositesTrackPainfulAlbumsDivorceProofPrimeBobGreat ArtDylanYears Past Author:Bob Dylan
“i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream.” GivingDreamPastBloodLonelyFancyMeant To BeIsolatedFlash Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran