Mary Quotes - Page 26

• When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Mother, Prayer, Sleep

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.

  Andy Rooney

  Christian, Atheist, Religion

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• In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Real, Artist

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• Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Book, Mysterious, Glory

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• She's kind of like a Mary Poppins just before she turns to the dark side of the Force," Oberon said. He was still behind the counter, but he had a good lok at her as she exited. "Let go of your anger, Malina! There's still good in you! The Emperor hasn't driven it from you fully!

  Kevin Hearne

  Letting Go, Dark, Sides

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• I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Talking, Machines

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• I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.

  Willa Holland

  Littles, Obsessed

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• My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.

  Kevin Whately

  Independent, Mum

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• If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Mother, Believe

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• I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.

  Robin Thicke

  Mary J Blige

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• My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new.

  Roddy Piper

  Busy, Masturbation, My Friends

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• I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Boys, Age, Window

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary.

  Elmore Leonard

  Reading, Writing, Lines

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• I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

  Tammy Wynette

  Religious, Making Love, Religion

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• You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him, you will give to Him holy kisses, you will wash Him with your tears, you will carry Him within you like Mary Most Holy.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Inspiration, Kissing

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• I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

  Little Richard

  Uncles, Aunt, Long

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• As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Mother, Osiris

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• If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

  A. A. Milne

  Writing, Play, History

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• Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women.

  Michael Coren

  Giving, Catholic, Enough

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• Mary found again in the adorable Host the adorable fruit of her womb... and began in the Cenacle her new maternity at the feet of Jesus in the Eucharist

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Feet, Adorable

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• If Jack, Frank and Mary are in a loving relationship and were all for marriage equality, then why aren't the three of them covered in SB1? Why can't they get married?

  Mike Gabbard

  Three, Marriage Equality, Married

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• George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.

  Lucius Beebe

  Pick Me Up, Towns, Receiving

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• The Eucharist began at Bethlehem in Mary's arms. It was she who brought to humanity the Bread for which it was famishing, and which alone can nourish it. She it was who took care of that Bread for us. It was she who nourished the Lamb whose life-giving Flesh we feed upon

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Giving, Humanity, Bread

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• Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.

  Sean O'Casey

  Christian, Knights, Order

  Sean O'Casey (1975). “The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1955-58”, Catholic University of Amer Press

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