Blessed Virgin Mary

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

    ““What must I do to become blessed?” That I do not know, but I say to you: “Be blessed and then do whatever you please.””
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “For often at Church I’ve seen the stained high glass
    Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist
    The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “The traveller on the prarie is naturally a hunter, on the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, and at the Falls of St. Mary a fisherman.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)