“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
Source: Dark Side of the Moon
“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
“Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
St. 5.
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)
Allen Tate (1899–1979) American poet, essayist and social commentator
I, from Collected Poems (1970).
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew<cite>Luther's Works</cite>, American Edition (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1962), Volume 45, Page 201.
Context: When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.
“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles
Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Statement on the occasion of Gandhi's 70th birthday (1939) Einstein archive 32-601, published in Out of My Later Years http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&pg=PA240&lpg=PA240&dq=einstein+%22out+of+my+later+years%22+%22will+scarce+believe%22&source=web&ots=xRZlwUOcEY&sig=0oe_RZgwXaNYtrIGz-XDqmfWna0 (1950). <br class="br">1930s <br class="br">Variant: Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.
Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) Dutch economist
As quoted in: Anis Chowdhury, Colin Kirkpatrick (2003) Development Policy and Planning: An Introduction to Models http://books.google.com/books?id=dv7eEUpkwsMC&pg=PA6. p. 6 <br class="br">"The Use of Models: Experience," 1969
“The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.”
Ted Dekker (1962) American writer
Source: White: The Great Pursuit
“People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified