Blood Quote by Moina Michael

The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in…

— Louise Glück

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

— Tacitus

Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes -…

— Elizabeth Samet

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and…

— Richard Hovey

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

— Elbert Hubbard

Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side…

— Abram Joseph Ryan

Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and…

— Anonymous

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows,…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

We had set out in a rain of flowers to seek the death of heroes. The war was our dream of greatness, power and…

— Ernst Junger

Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but…

— Hartley Coleridge

Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the…

— Henry Timrod

When people do love our show [Heroes] and they put on the costumes, they know everything about our characters. And it is overwhelming at…

— Hayden Panettiere