Mary Ann Britland/biography

Famous quotes containing the words mary ann, mary, ann and/or biography:

    All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 10:41,42.

    Jesus to Martha.

    In every parting there is an image of death.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)