Gain Babenberg Blood

Famous quotes containing the words gain and/or blood:

    For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Mark, 8:36.

    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)