Quotes About Mary

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

Seven paters seven times, Send Mary by her Son, Send Bridget by her mantle, Send God by His strength, Between us and the faery host, Between us and the demons of the air.

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

What started Baby Jesus growing in Mary's tummy was an angel zoomed down, like a ghost but a really cool one with feathers. Mary was all surprised, she said, How can this be? and then, OK let it be. When Baby Jesus popped out of her vagina on Christmas she put him in a manger but not for the cows to chew, only to warm him up with their blowing because he was magic.

The lightest touch might keep Mary there, rooted in this frozen alley. Instead, she stretched out her hand to the worn red ribbon in Doll's wig. Was it the same one, she wondered, the first one, the ribbon the child Mary had set her eyes and heart on at the Seven Dials, three long years ago?

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

she didn't understand a thing about Catholics. It's all praise Mary, she said, women doing all the hard work and letting men run the church and calling the shots for everyone.

Historically, Mary would be in her late teens because that is when, as best as we can determine, Jewish women in Judea and Galilee married in the late Second Temple period.

Just as Mary, like Hannah before her, sang a song of divine redemption, so Mary will learn, as did Hannah, that she will have to let her son go.

The shepherds function as a "sign" to Mary; they assure her, "yes, what you experienced was not a hallucination; yes, no matter how unbelievable everything has been, believe!

Mary's Magnificat, together with her words to Gabriel and Elizabeth's words to her, explains why she should be blessed, even by Protestants. She was able to receive the angel's words and to accept them with both humility and grace.

There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

I had a teacher/director at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where I trained for a year, named Mary Duff, who taught me practically everything I know.

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.

I have been on a diet since 1962.

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

In Matthew 13:55 and 56, we read that after Mary gave birth to Jesus (He was Mary's firstborn), she gave birth to four more boys and to at least two girls. That means Jesus was the eldest of at least six siblings. Matthew 13:55 says about Jesus, "Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses [Joseph], and Simon, and Jude?

it with an E. We had recitations this afternoon. I just wish you could have been there to hear me recite 'Mary, Queen of Scots.' I just put my whole soul into it. Ruby Gillis told me coming home that the way I said the line, 'Now for my

She could not think what it would be to teach school twelve miles away from home, along among strangers. The less she thought of it the better, for she must go, and she must meet whatever happened as it came. Now Mary can have everting she needs, and she can come home this next summer, she said. Oh, Pa, do you think I - I can teach school? I do, Laura, said Pa. I am sure of it.

Young man?" he raged. "Young man! It's a damned good thing you did retire, if that's all that remains of the great detective's mind!" And with that he snatched off his oversized cap. A pair of long blonde plaits slithered down the woollen garments, turning him into a her. Thus, my first meeting with Mary Russell.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

3 Y como viniese a faltar el vino, dijo a Jesús su madre: No tienen vino. 4 Le respondió Jesús: Mujer, ¿qué nos va a mí y a ti? Aún no es llegada mi hora. 5 Dijo entonces su madre a los sirvientes: Hagan lo que él les dirá.

46 Entonces María dijo: Mi alma glorifica al Señor; 47 y mi espíritu está trasportado de gozo en el Dios salvador mío. 48