Red Cross Societies

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

    “Where the slow river
    meets the tide,
    a red swan lifts red wings
    and darker beak.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “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)