Red Cross Societies

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

    “I know a little garden-close
    Set thick with lily and red rose,
    Where I would wander if I might
    From dewy dawn to dewy night,”
    —William Morris (1834–1896)

    “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.

    “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)