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Quotes About Virgin

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove - there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.
~ Richard Branson
Look down with maternal clemency, Most Blessed Virgin, upon all your children. Consider the anxiety of bishops who fear their flocks will be tormented by a terrible storm of evils. Heed the anguish of so many people, fathers and mothers of families who are uncertain about their future and beset by hardship and cares. (Christi Matri Rosarii)
~ Pope Paul VI
My Bond character was meant to look like a virgin. I don't think they do that very often.
~ Jane Seymour
I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.
~ Richard Branson
As the Son rose on Christian civilization, the Blessed Virgin emerged as the mother of poetry as she is the Mother of God in the magnificence of the Magnificat, and St. John, her divinely appointed son, is revealed as the progenitor of Christian metaphysical poetry in the opening lines of his Gospel and in the mystical majesty of his apocalyptic vision.
~ Joseph Pearce
It's a date, isn't it, she realized. Praise to the Virgin Scribe, I have a date! Trez laughed, the sound a rumble in his broad chest. You'd better believe you do. And I'ma treat you like a queen. My queen. ~Trez 'The Shadows' page 205
~ jr ward
Commentary: This message confirms the major premise of this book in that the Virgin Mary states she will never come to earth in apparition again. It is one of the most meaningful messages given at Medjugorje.
~ Wayne Weible
Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
What do you hope for that you haven't got? What can that child give you?' There was a little silence. 'A virgin audience for my riddles, I believe,' said Lymond thoughtfully, at length. 'But it certainly poses an ungallant question.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I," said Lymond, in the voice unmistakably his which honeyed his most lethal thoughts, "I am a narwhal looking for my virgin. I have sucked up the sea like Charybdis and failing other entertainment will spew it three times daily, for a fee.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Other people married young, to men they didn't know, and had no dispensation such as she had. To sleep alone; to plan her own destiny. A virgin married, with a son not her own….Kate always said, thought Philippa, blinking, that the Somervilles were mad to a man.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Lo, when man's force doth ope The virgin doors, there is no cure nor hope For what is lost.
~ Aeschylus
Trumpets! Lightnings! The earth trembles! But into the Virgin's womb thou didst descent with noiseless tread.
~ Agathias Scholasticus
The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years.
~ Kathryn Harrison
As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
~ Raymond Chandler
if Jesus really was born of a virgin, Joseph's ancestry is irrelevant and cannot be used to fulfil, on Jesus' behalf, the Old Testament prophecy that the Messiah should be descended from David.
~ Richard Dawkins
Anyway, it's a crock of shit. Simple-minded post-quranic desert Islam propaganda. No one in the modern Muslim world with two brain cells to rub together believes that shit any more. And who wants a fucking virgin anyway? You got to teach them every fucking thing. Like having sex with a fucking shop mannequin with its motion circuits shot up.
~ Richard K. Morgan
When I heard this I became very sad, but I thought that now I would indeed have to take him with me so that the Virgin herself could enlighten him.
~ Karen Blixen
19TH DAY OF OCTOBER, Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know
~ Karen Cushman
Seducing innocent virgins is such a tiring venture." Christian lifted a brow. "Are we back to that?
~ Karen Hawkins
Christ was born of a woman without the man.
~ Saint Augustine
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.
~ Anthony of Padua
To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.
~ Pope Pius XII