Blood Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens, spike topped…

— David Mitchell

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

— Howard Pyle

To wash this memory clean. Let the floods cross.

— Linkin Park

I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

— Anonymous

“Here at the creek mouth the fields run on to the river, the mud deltaed and baring out of its rich alluvial harbored bones…

— Cormac McCarthy

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea…

— John James Audubon

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

— Honore de Balzac

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born…

— Alexander Pope

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us…

— Aldo Leopold

“All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or…

— Bram Stoker

“They rode for days through the rain and they rode through rain and hail and rain again. In that gray storm light they crossed…

— Cormac McCarthy