Famous quotes containing the words world, painted and/or blood:
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Like the moon her kindness is.
If kindness I may call
What has no comprehension int,
But is the same for all
As though my sorrow were a scene
Upon a painted wall.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruelnot speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.”
—Clara Barton (18211912)