Blood Into Wine Quotes

#1. Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks.

David Berkowitz

#2. Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.

Mohsin Hamid

#3. And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper.

Bram Stoker

#4. I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

J. F. Powers

#5. whose melancholy could be cured only by the spectacle of death, and who had a passion for red blood, as other men have for red wine--the son

Oscar Wilde

#6. I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.

Sara Miles

#7. It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#8. It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

Maynard James Keenan

#9. Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood.

David Berkowitz

#10. Why do you think Jesus used wine to symbolize his blood? ...
I think the Lord used wine for dozens of reasons, but one of the most convincing for me is the fact that crafting a glass of fine wine is nothing less than a very intentional, almost sacrificial, act of love.

Nicole Baart

#11. Amelia was sitting on the pavement in her lawn chair, a glass of wine in her hand.
When we emerged, she set the glass down very carefully on the ground and then looked us over from head to toe.
'Okay, don't know how to react,' she said, finally.

Charlaine Harris

#12. Your divine should not have used water. It just doesn't hold the attention properly. Wine. Or blood, in a pinch. Some liquid that matters.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#13. Blood and wine are interchangeable.
Love and hate are unrecognizable.
Sanity is no longer with me.

A.P. Sweet

#14. Cupbearer, fill the bowl with blood, not wine --
And if you lack the heart's rich blood, take mine.
Love thrives on inextinguishable pain;
Which tears the soul, then knits the threads again.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#15. Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You.

Anthony Mary Claret

#16. He'd heard of elvenblossom wine. It was known for its stultifying bouquet of fruit blossoms and the battle-axe power of its alcohol content. Only those of elven blood could stomach the sweet stuff, he'd heard, and it was the alcoholic equivalent of being kicked in the head by a centaur.

Mark Anthony

#17. I fail remarkably. I write Eye when I mean Tooth. I write Fornicate when I mean Caress. I write Wine when I mean Blood.

Mary MacLane

#18. All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.

Richard Le Gallienne

#19. Oppression lays down blood-lust. It lays it down like a wine.

Martin Amis

#20. What is blood but the wine of life?

Vera Nazarian

#21. The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.

Joseph Hall

#22. You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

Graham Greene

#23. The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations ...

Robert Motherwell

#24. He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead

Oscar Wilde

#25. How can I wear a leather suit that does not carry the stains of wine and blood?" asks CT, and Gustav does not answer; of course it was rhetorical

Alissa Nutting

#26. We might have coupled
In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment
Or broken flesh with one another
At the profane communion table
Where wine is spill'd on promiscuous lips

We might have given birth to a butterfly
With the daily-news
Printed in blood on its wings

Mina Loy

#27. I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

Franco Nero

#28. Your blood reveal your most intimate secrets. Are you dying of leukimia or AIDS? Did you smoke cigarette or drink a glass of wine in the last few hours? Are you prozac because you're depressed, or Viagra because you can't get it up?

Tess Gerritsen

#29. Witches didn't need blood to survive, but humans didn't need wine, either.

Sarah J. Maas

#30. I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

Jane Grey

#31. For I know that Death is a guest divine, Who shall drink my blood as I drink this wine. - William Winter

Holly Black

#32. He tastes of white wine and apple pie and Christian. I run my fingers through his hair, holding him to me while our tongues explore and curl and twist around each other, my blood heating in my veins.We're breathless when Christian pulls away.

E.L. James

#33. Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.

John Wycliffe

#34. But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after.

Marc Aronson

#35. My life was writ in red, in blood and wine.

George R R Martin

#36. Oh you're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh I would still be on my feet

Joni Mitchell

#37. Every culture can be kind of defined by what they drink in order to avoid dying of diarrhea. In China it's tea. In Africa it's milk or animal blood. In Europe it was wine and beer.

Neal Stephenson

#38. My old love, my new
Unlike wine, it's not better
Fresh blood is so sweet

Debby Feo

#39. She wasn't my kind of woman and that's why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the truth out of a woman sooner than any confession box does. Makes you trust a stranger with your life, your car keys, your best-guarded secret.

Amruta Patil

#40. Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?

Karlheinz Deschner

#41. Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth ...

Pablo Neruda

#42. Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

Clive Barker