Mary Quotes

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore. (Iris Murdoch)
Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up. View quote
Anita Diament
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special. View quote
Antonia Fraser
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion. View quote
Fiona Shaw
I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing. View quote
Gavin MacLeod
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. View quote
Olympia Dukakis
I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars. View quote
Rosanne Cash
I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin. View quote
John Wesley
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. (Tanith Lee)
I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to. View quote
Nigella Lawson
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written. View quote
Noël Coward
Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the pain. I feel summer creepin' in and I'm tired of this town again. View quote
Tom Petty
She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas. View quote
Jane Austen
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. View quote
Jane Austen
It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor. View quote
John Calvin
If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment. View quote
John Calvin
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved. View quote
John Calvin
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!" View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
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)
How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary. View quote
Thomas Hood
Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed, His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared. His mother stood apart. No other looked into her secret eyes. Nobody dared. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
The golden Hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my Dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. View quote
Robert Burns
As the original Mary Poppins budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing. View quote
Walt Disney