Red Cross Societies

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

    “Compared to Clouseau, Attila the Hun was a Red Cross volunteer.”
    —Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

    “Only, here and there, an old sailor,
    Drunk and asleep in his boots,
    Catches tigers
    In red weather.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “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)

    “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)