Mary Quotes

I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.

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.

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.

Ted Kennedy is endorsing John Kerry and I'm wondering, do you really want the endorsement of a guy with a Bloody Mary mustache?

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

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.

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

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.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it. Let us learn from Mary how to make decisions, trusting in the Lord.

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

We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.

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

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession.

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.

Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.

Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind.

O how long ago the earth would have been destroyed, if Mary had not interposed!

By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.

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

Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine

Mary is more important than the apostles.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

Being thy servant, O Mary, is a surety of salvation God grants solely to those He will save.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

[Matt] Lindland looks just like 'Woogie' from 'There's Something About Mary', how am I possibly supposed to take this guy seriously?

So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.