Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R. - Philippa Gregory You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing. - Shannon Hale

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community. - Joe Biden If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle. - Marlon Brando Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood. - Charles Dickens

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose? - Ava Gardner He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it. - Laurell K Hamilton Killing depends on circumstances, as you'd expect, whether it's a cold, planned murder, or a hot death in a fight, or inspired by honor or a more shameful motive. However many times you kill, though, it's the first that matters. It's a man's first blood that banishes him from the world of the ordinary. - David Mitchell First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden - R A Salvatore

There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don't seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don't seem to know how to put it back where it belongs. - Mira Grant I took his hand and shook it. Even with all the training I've had to desensitize me to the necessity of occasional contact with strangers, the gesture felt wrong. You aren't supposed to touch people you don't know. Not unless they've just demonstrated their infection status with a successful blood test, and maybe not even then. - Mira Grant The garage door slid open as we pulled into the driveway, registering the sensors Shaun and I wear around our neck. In case of viral amplification, the garage becomes the zombie equivalent of a roach motel: Our sensors get us in, but only a clean blood test and a successful voice check gets us out. If we ever fail those tests, we...

Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte's Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Ally's model book. "I like the family that comes together in the barn," Ally said without hesitation. "I like that they aren't all the same thing; one is human and one's a spider and one's a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love. - Meg Waite Clayton Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it. - Sarah Dessen Knavery and flattery are blood relations. - Abraham Lincoln From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations. - Evelyn Waugh

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. - Arthur Baer When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. - Dale Carnegie Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure. - T Colin Campbell I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign. - Steven Cojocaru American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our ...

Blood is thicker than water, The young man said As he knifed his friend For a drooling old bitch And a house full of lies. - Ernest Hemingway Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both. - Margaret Atwood Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. ("The Wife Of Ted Wickham") - A E Coppard Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I'd often disputed. But it turned out that it didn't matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms. - Cheryl Strayed

My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors. - Niki Taylor I owe my life to blood donors. I'm forever grateful to people who donate. - Niki Taylor

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank. - Richard Branson After playing Halo 2 for 3 hours, I went out and mowed down a Red Cross blood bank, raped anything with a pulse, and trashed the local mall. Then I toasted the gods of destruction with a goblet of blood stolen from a Girl Guide's body. - Douglas Coupland I have never known anyone with less money and less visible means of getting hold of it. He had slept around everywhere, from the floors of friends' studios, to the Metro. There were days when he had literally no money at all, and after a string of such days he would go to the blood bank and sell his blood. More often than not he spent this money on tickets to the ballet. - Elaine Dundy From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character. - Bill Frist It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I ...

I am one of the Clave. It's in my blood and bones. So tell me, if you're so sure this wasn't my fault, why is it that the first thought in my mind when I saw Abbadon wasn't for my fellow warriors but for you?" His other hand came up; he was holding her face, prisoned between his palms. "I know-I knew-Alec wasn't acting like himself. I knew something was wrong. But all I could think about was you.. - Cassandra Clare The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll. - Sarah Rees Brennan I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. - Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and p...

It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible. - Alexandra Adornetto I am one of the Clave. It's in my blood and bones. So tell me, if you're so sure this wasn't my fault, why is it that the first thought in my mind when I saw Abbadon wasn't for my fellow warriors but for you?" His other hand came up; he was holding her face, prisoned between his palms. "I know-I knew-Alec wasn't acting like himself. I knew something was wrong. But all I could think about was you.. - Cassandra Clare The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll. - Sarah Rees Brennan I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. - Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships...