Red Cross Societies

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

    “O My Luve’s like a red, red rose,
    That’s newly sprung in June;
    O My Luve’s like the melodie
    That’s sweetly played in tune.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “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.

    “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)