“Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature.”
Jerome K. Jerome book Three Men in a Boat
Source: Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 19.
“Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature.”
Jerome K. Jerome book Three Men in a Boat
Source: Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 19.
“Obedience carries in it the life-blood of religion.”
Thomas Watson (1616–1686) English nonconformist preacher and author
From The Ten Commandments - first published as part of A Body of Practical Divinity (1692).
“Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.”
John Lothrop Motley The Rise of the Dutch Republic
The Rise of the Dutch Republic (1856; New York: Harper, 1861) vol. 3, part 6, ch. 1, p. 416.
“The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
“I did not spittel a drop of blood, or steal a cent in all my life.”
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888–1927) Italian American anarchist executed by Massachusetts
Letter to Mrs.Glendower Evans http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/van-charlestown.html (22 July 1921)
“Here life is, moves; faintly. A wrist. The faint throb of blood, precise, miraculous . . .”
Him (1927)
Context: Here life is, moves; faintly. A wrist. The faint throb of blood, precise, miraculous... And they talk of dying! The blood delicately descending and ascending: making an arm. Being an arm. The warm flesh, the dim slender flesh filled with life, slenderer than a miracle, frailer... These are the shoulders through which fell the world. The dangerous shoulders of Eve, in god's entire garden newly strolling.
“The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.”
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter
Dracula, speaking to Harker at his castle
Dracula (1931)
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: On Mystic Lake