Red Cross Societies

Famous quotes containing the words red cross, red, cross and/or societies:

    “Compared to Clouseau, Attila the Hun was a Red Cross volunteer.”
    —Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

    “Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

    “It was mankind that hung on the cross for two thousand years: and a terrible god practiced his cruelty and called it “love.””
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.”
    —Northrop Frye (b. 1912)