Quotes about shed

A collection of quotes on the topic of shed, blood, tear, light.

Quotes about shed

“Fijians will never be recognized unless our blood is first shed.”

Lala Sukuna (1888–1958) Chief of Lau and civil servant in Fiji

Miscellaneous quotes

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky photo
Rabindranath Tagore photo
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman photo

“As we have already shed blood, we are ready to shed more blood!”

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975) Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh

Source: Quote, This time the struggle is for our freedom (1971)

Robert Burns photo
Grigori Rasputin photo

“I write and leave behind me this letter at St. Petersburg. I feel that I shall leave life before January 1st. I wish to make known to the Russian people, to Papa, to the Russian Mother and to the children, to the land of Russia, what they must understand. If I am killed by common assassins, and especially by my brothers the Russian peasants, you, Tsar of Russia, have nothing to fear, remain on your throne and govern, and you, Russian Tsar, will have nothing to fear for your children, they will reign for hundreds of years in Russia. But if I am murdered by boyars, nobles, and if they shed my blood, their hands will remain soiled with my blood, for twenty-five years they will not wash their hands from my blood. They will leave Russia. Brothers will kill brothers, and they will kill each other and hate each other, and for twenty-five years there will be no noblers in the country. Tsar of the land of Russia, if you hear the sound of the bell which will tell you that Grigory has been killed, you must know this: if it was your relations who have wrought my death then no one of your family, that is to say, none of your children or relations will remain alive for more than two years. They will be killed by the Russian people…I shall be killed. I am no longer among the living. Pray, pray, be strong, think of your blessed family.”

Grigori Rasputin (1869–1916) Russian mystic

Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916

Sadhguru photo

“No tears are shed, when an enemy dies.”

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Maxim 376
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

James Baldwin photo

“If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run their devouring course, destroying the very foundations which it was imagined they would save.

But we are unbelievably ignorant concerning what goes on in our country--to say nothing of what goes on in the rest of the world--and appear to have become too timid to question what we are told. Our failure to trust one another deeply enough to be able to talk to one another has become so great that people with these questions in their hearts do not speak them; our opulence is so pervasive that people who are afraid to lose whatever they think they have persuade themselves of the truth of a lie, and help disseminate it; and God help the innocent here, that man or womn who simply wants to love, and be loved. Unless this would-be lover is able to replace his or her backbone with a steel rod, he or she is doomed. This is no place for love. I know that I am now expected to make a bow in the direction of those millions of unremarked, happy marriages all over America, but I am unable honestly to do so because I find nothing whatever in our moral and social climate--and I am now thinking particularly of the state of our children--to bear witness to their existence. I suspect that when we refer to these happy and so marvelously invisible people, we are simply being nostalgic concerning the happy, simple, God-fearing life which we imagine ourselves once to have lived. In any case, wherever love is found, it unfailingly makes itself felt in the individual, the personal authority of the individual. Judged by this standard, we are a loveless nation. The best that can be said is that some of us are struggling. And what we are struggling against is that death in the heart which leads not only to the shedding of blood, but which reduces human beings to corpses while they live.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Source: nothing personal

Manly P. Hall photo
Sitting Bull photo

“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed.”

Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man

Recorded by the Jesuit priest Pierre-Jean De Smet after a council with Sitting Bull on June 19, 1868. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 79-80.
Context: I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon … shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.

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“We are broken open, or we willfully shed.”

Mark Nepo (1951) American writer

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

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“They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, asthe darkness.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Color of Magic

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Billy Graham photo
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John Keats photo
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Thomas Paine photo
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“[the task of material culture is] to shed light on the tasks of production in our country, and also to discover the place of the artist-constructor in production, in relation to improving the quality both of the manufactured product and of the organization of the new way of life in general.”

Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953) Russian artist

Quote, May 1924; from Tatlin's lecture on 'Material Culture and Its Role in the Production of Life in the USSR'; as quoted by Larissa A. Zhadova, ed., Tatlin, trans. Paul Filotas et al; Thames and Hudson, London, 1988, p. 252
In May 1924, right in the middle of N.E.P., Tatlin offered his synoptic statement of what was still the task of material culture
Quotes, 1910 - 1925

Truman Capote photo

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”

Truman Capote (1924–1984) American author

Disputed

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Napoleon I of France photo

“A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon, a magnificent tomb, and I gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where rest at last the ashes of that restless man. I leaned over the balustrade and thought about the career of the greatest soldier of the modern world. I saw him walking upon the banks of the Seine, contemplating suicide. I saw him at Toulon—I saw him putting down the mob in the streets of Paris—I saw him at the head of the army of Italy—I saw him crossing the bridge of Lodi with the tri-color in his hand—I saw him in Egypt in the shadows of the pyramids—I saw him conquer the Alps and mingle the eagles of France with the eagles of the crags. I saw him at Marengo—at Ulm and Austerlitz. I saw him in Russia, where the infantry of the snow and the cavalry of the wild blast scattered his legions like winter's withered leaves. I saw him at Leipsic in defeat and disaster—driven by a million bayonets back upon Paris—clutched like a wild beast—banished to Elba. I saw him escape and retake an empire by the force of his genius. I saw him upon the frightful field of Waterloo, where Chance and Fate combined to wreck the fortunes of their former king. And I saw him at St. Helena, with his hands crossed behind him, gazing out upon the sad and solemn sea. I thought of the orphans and widows he had made—of the tears that had been shed for his glory, and of the only woman who ever loved him, pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition. And I said I would rather have been a French peasant and worn wooden shoes. I would rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing over the door, and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the autumn sun. I would rather have been that poor peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky—with my children upon my knees and their arms about me—I would rather have been that man and gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust, than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder, known as 'Napoleon the Great.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
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Lewis Carroll photo
Aleksandr Pushkin photo
Marianne Moore photo

“Staff and effigy of the animal
which by shedding its skin
is a sign of renewal —
the symbol of medicine.”

Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer

"The Staff of Aesculapius"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

Kurt Vonnegut photo
W.B. Yeats photo

“Hands, do what you’re bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

The Balloon Of The Mind http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1595/
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay photo

“Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician

Epitaph on a Jacobite (1845)

Teresa of Ávila photo

“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

Attributed to Teresa by Truman Capote in "An Interview with Truman Capote" by Don Lee Keith, in Contempora (October/November 1970), p. 40, as the source of the title of a work in progress which he intended as a novel, to be called Answered Prayers; no earlier publications of such an attribution has yet been located.
Variants:
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Attributed in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992) by Carolyn Warner
Disputed

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“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic

As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 60

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“I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”

Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) French mime and actor

As quoted in Wall Street Journal (19 November 1965)
Context: I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

John Keats photo

“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Context: Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Vita Sackville-West photo

“I saw within the wheelwright’s shed
The big round cartwheels, blue and red”

Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener

"Making Cider", p. 100
The Land (1926)
Context: I saw within the wheelwright’s shed
The big round cartwheels, blue and red;
A plough with blunted share;
A blue tin jug; a broken chair;
And paint in trial patchwork square
Slapping up against the wall;
The lumber of the wheelwright’s trade,
And tools on benches neatly laid,
The brace, the adze, the awl;

Anthony de Mello photo

“We're always dying to things. We're always shedding everything in order to be fully alive and resurrected at every moment.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

"The Death of Me", p. 150
Awareness (1992)
Context: One of your American authors put it so well. He said awakening is the death of your belief in injustice and tragedy. The end of the world for a caterpillar is a butterfly for the master. Death is resurrection. We're talking not about some resurrection that will happen but about one that is happening right now. If you would die to the past, if you would die to every minute, you would be the person who is fully alive, because a fully alive person is one who is full of death. We're always dying to things. We're always shedding everything in order to be fully alive and resurrected at every moment. The mystics, saints, and others make great efforts to wake people up. If they don't wake up, they're always going to have these other minor ills like hunger, wars, and violence. The greatest evil is sleeping people, ignorant people.

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Aimee Friedman photo

“Beckon The Sea,
I'll Come To The….
Shed Seven Tears,
Perchance Seven Years….”

Terri Farley (1950) American writer

Source: Seven Tears Into the Sea

Maureen Johnson photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Khaled Hosseini photo
Walt Whitman photo
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Philippa Gregory photo
Frank Beddor photo

“Redd shed caution like an outgrown skin.”

Source: The Looking Glass Wars

Thomas Jefferson photo

“I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to papal nuncio Count Dugnani (14 February 1818)
1810s

Libba Bray photo
Janet Fitch photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
John Keats photo
Maureen Johnson photo
Harriet Beecher Stowe photo

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author

Source: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
Source: Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness

Anne Morrow Lindbergh photo
Karen Marie Moning photo

“Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Beyond The Highland Mist

Max Brooks photo

“Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.”

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Paulo Coelho photo
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Scott Lynch photo
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George Carlin photo
Harriet Beecher Stowe photo
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