“Earth helped him with the cry of blood.”
Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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William Morris book A Dream of John Ball
Source: A Dream of John Ball (1886), Ch. 4: The Voice of John Ball
Context: Forsooth, he that waketh in hell and feeleth his heart fail him, shall have memory of the merry days of earth, and how that when his heart failed him there, he cried on his fellow, were it his wife or his son or his brother or his gossip or his brother sworn in arms, and how that his fellow heard him and came and they mourned together under the sun, till again they laughed together and were but half sorry between them. This shall he think on in hell, and cry on his fellow to help him, and shall find that therein is no help because there is no fellowship, but every man for himself.
Abdul Rashid Ghazi (1964–2007) Pakistani fundamentalist
Sheikh Osama bin Laden, Bin Laden vows revenge on "infidel" Musharraf, Reuters, Sep 20, 2007 http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL2041722020070920,.
José Saramago book The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
O filho de José e de Maria nasceu como todos os filhos dos homens, sujo de sangue de sua mãe, viscoso das suas mucosidades e sofrendo em silêncio. Chorou porque o fizeram chorar, e chorará por esse mesmo e único motivo.
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 58
“Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
Title of poem.
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
“Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets hims apart
From every other creature
On earth.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Das Göttliche
Das Göttliche (The Divine) (1783)
“Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
“We're playing for blood, the stake is EARTH.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
(7 November 1962).
Scientology Policy Letters