Blood

Blood

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.

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Famous quotes containing the word blood:

    “Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,
    That mak’st my blood cold, and my hair to stare?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?”
    —Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 10:16.

    “by noon
    the whole city in all its corruption,
    all its shed blood the monsoon cannot wash away,
    has become a temple,
    fragile, insolent, absolute.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)