“Fijians will never be recognized unless our blood is first shed.”
Miscellaneous quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of shed, blood, tear, light.
“Fijians will never be recognized unless our blood is first shed.”
Miscellaneous quotes
“As we have already shed blood, we are ready to shed more blood!”
Source: Quote, This time the struggle is for our freedom (1971)
Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916
“No tears are shed, when an enemy dies.”
Maxim 376
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928), Chapter: Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds
“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed.”
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.
“We are broken open, or we willfully shed.”
Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
“They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, asthe darkness.”
Source: The Color of Magic
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“…(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)…”
Source: Lolita
Disputed, No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
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
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
Disputed
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 35
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 73.
2014, Review of Signals Intelligence Speech (June 2014)
Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
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"The Staff of Aesculapius"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
An Outline of European Architecture (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1942] 1957), p. 23.
The Balloon Of The Mind http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1595/
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
“Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.”
Epitaph on a Jacobite (1845)
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones.”
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
Source: 1860s, Speech in Independence Hall (1861)
Section 253
2010s, 2013, Evangelii Gaudium · The Joy of the Gospel
Letter to James F. Morton (10 February 1923), published in Selected Letters Vol. I (1965), p. 208
Non-Fiction, Letters, to James Ferdinand Morton, Jr.
September 1913 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1576/, st. 3
Responsibilities (1914)
By Still Waters (1906)
2015, Bloody Sunday Speech (March 2015)
“Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.”
As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 60
“I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”
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.
“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”
"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.
“I saw within the wheelwright’s shed
The big round cartwheels, blue and red”
"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;
"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.
“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
Source: Sea Change
“Beckon The Sea,
I'll Come To The….
Shed Seven Tears,
Perchance Seven Years….”
Source: Seven Tears Into the Sea
“And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.”
Source: Midnight Alley
Letter to papal nuncio Count Dugnani (14 February 1818)
1810s
“When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.”
Source: Stargirl
“How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?”
Source: White Oleander
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Source: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
Source: Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
“Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.”
Source: Beyond The Highland Mist
“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
“Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.”
Source: Anna Karenina
“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
Source: On the Edge
Source: Bleach, Volume 01
Source: The Unexpected Universe
A Fiery Flying Roll (1650)
Source: 1980s, Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms, 1980, p. 5