Red Cross Societies

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

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

    “When the cross blue lightning seemed to open
    The breast of heaven, I did present myself
    Even in the aim and very flash of it.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “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)