Marrow may refer to:
- Bone marrow, the flexible tissue interior to bone
- Squash (plant), called "vegetable marrow" in British English.
- Marrow (comics), a character in the X-Men comic series
- Marrow (novel), a science fiction novel by Robert Reed
- The Marrow Controversy, occasioned by the republication of The Marrow of Modern Divinity in 1718
- A Cumbrian colloquialism for friend
Famous quotes containing the word marrow:
“But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man’s bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
““A young man in the dark am I
But a wild old man in the light
That can make a cat laugh, or
Can touch by mother wit
Things hid in their marrow bones
From time long passed away....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.”
—Thomas Merton (1915–1968)