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:

    “Irrational streams of blood are staining earth;
    Empedocles has thrown all things about;
    Hector is dead and there’s a light in Troy;
    We that look on but laugh in tragic joy.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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

    “They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:7.