Famous quotes containing the words blessed, virgin and/or mary:
“Oh, may she deign to stand at my bedside
When I come to die; and may she call to me
And draw me to her in the blessed place!”
—Petrarch (13041374)
“Lets have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“And the song she was singing ever since
In my ear sounds on:
Stay at home, pretty bees, fly not hence!
Mistress Mary is dead and gone!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892)