Red Cross Societies

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

    “I shall go among red faces and virile voices,
    See stylish sheep, with fine heads and well-wooled,
    And great bulls mellow to the touch,”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

    “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Mark 8:34,5.

    Jesus.

    “There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.”
    —Barbara Ward (1914–1981)