Red Cross Societies

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

    “I am so tired of being a bachelor
    I could give all my heart to that Red Moll
    That had but the one eye.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “All pathways by His feet are worn,
    His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea;
    His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn;
    His cross is every tree.”
    —Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887–1916)

    “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)