Blessed Virgin Mary

Famous quotes containing the words blessed, virgin and/or mary:

    “Hush’d in and curtain’d with a blessed dearth
    Of all that irk’d her from the hour of birth;
    With stillness that is almost Paradise.
    Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her,”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

    “I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.”
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

    “Parenting is the one area of my life where I can feel incompetent, out of control and like a total failure all of the time.”
    —Attorney Father. As quoted in Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher, ch. 4 (1994)