Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“I pray you let us satisfy our eyes
With the memorials and the things of fame
That do renown this city.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn’t so. I tried it. Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks. It warn’t any good to me without hooks.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Those who sin against Heaven will have no one to pray to.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.