Red Blood Cells

Famous quotes containing the words red, blood and/or cells:

    “You can’t be a Red if you’re married to a civil servant.”
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

    “In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.”
    —Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    “They are sworn enemies of lyric poetry.
    In prison they accompany the jailer,
    Enter cells to hear confessions.
    Their short-end comes down
    When you least expect it.”
    —Charles Simic (b. 1938)