Red Crescent Society

Famous quotes containing the words red, crescent and/or society:

    “look the spangles
    that sleep all the year in a dark box
    dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine,
    the balls the chains red and gold the fluffy threads,

    put up your little arms
    and i’ll give them all to you to hold”
    —E.E. (Edward Estlin)

    “On me your voice falls as they say love should,
    Like an enormous yes. My Crescent City
    Is where your speech alone is understood.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigour of mathematical calculation.”
    —Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)