Famous quotes containing the words red, cross and/or societies:
“And out of her bosom there grew a red rose
And out of Lord Lovels a briar, briar, briar,
And out of Lord Lovels a briar.”
—Unknown. Lord Lovel (l. 3840)
“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
—Indian proverb, quoted in Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, ch. 30, From the Notebooks (1987)
“It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent celibacy, by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity backward.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
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