Red Cross Societies

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

    “‘But where can we draw water,’
    Said Pearse to Connolly,
    ‘When all the wells are parched away?
    O plain as plain can be
    There’s nothing but our own red blood
    Can make a right Rose Tree.’”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)