Mary Quotes - Page 24

• I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.

  Mordicai Gerstein

  First Impression, Monsters, World

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Home, Lakes

  1803 'Yarrow Unvisited', stanzas 6-7 (published 1807).

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• When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.

  Adam Rapp

  Smell, Oatmeal, House

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• Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.

  J.R. Ward

  Doctors, Vampire, Alternatives

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.936, Penguin

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• However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Morning, Garden, Years

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.67, Penguin

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• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

  Laura Mullen

  Mother, Discovery, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!

  Bill Shankly

  Queens, Differences, Soccer Fans

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• My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.

  Shirley Jackson

  Dog, Hands, Years

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• A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Believe, Taken

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• Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt...the first one went too far!

  Margaret Kennard

  Golf, Firsts, Littles

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• Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity. A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul... Our humanity is the substance of the sacramental life of Christ in us, like the wheat for the host, like the grape for the chalice.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Christian, Real

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.49, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.

  Pope Pius IX

  Faith, Jesus, Blessed

  Catholic Church. Pope (1846-1878 : Pius IX), John R. Sheets, Pope Pius IX (1854). “Ineffabilis Deus: Defining the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception : Apostolic Constitution of Pius IX, Issued December 8, 1854”, p.21

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• Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Age, Facts

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

  Patti LaBelle

  Girl, Song, Mary J Blige

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• I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Ambition, Humor

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and soul, and kept all the powers of her soul and her bodily senses far above any defilement. This she did authoritatively, steadfastly, decisively and altogether inviolably at all times, as a closed gate preserves the treasure within, and a sealed book keeps hidden from sight what is written inside. The Scriptures say of her, 'This is the sealed book' (cf. Rev. 5:1-6:1; Dan. 12:4) and 'this gate shall be shut, and no man shall enter by it' (Ezek. 44:2).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Book, Men

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• I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

  Betty Buckley

  Song, Two, Towns

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

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• For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been.

  Virginia Woolf

  Light, Torches, Olivia

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.109

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• I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Dog, Uncles

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• And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

  Paula Cole

  Ordinary, Holy Mary, Holy

  Song: I Am So Ordinary, Album: Harbinger, 1994

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• Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Important, Paleontology

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• Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Humble, Pro Life

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• Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Tea, Biscuits, Moments

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Simplicity, Rosary

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• Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Grace, Mother Mary

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