„I hold the brimming wineglass and relive the toils of my grandfathers and great-grandfathers. The sweat of my labor runs down like a fountain from my tall, intoxicated brow.I am a sack filled with meat and bones, blood, sweat, and tears, desires and visions.“

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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„I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.My business is to tear them apart.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„I know of a cure for everything: salt water… in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.“
— Karen Blixen
„Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.“
— Theodore Roosevelt