Blessed Virgin Mary

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

    ““Of fayre Elisa be your silver song,
    That blessed wight:
    The flowre of virgins, may shee florish long
    In princely plight.”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “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)

    “A fallen tree does not rise again.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 2412, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)