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:
“Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the
Light—
The marrow in the bone
We dreamed was safe . . . the blood in the veins, the
sap in the tree
Were springs of Deity.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.”
—Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828–1889)
“Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!”
—D.H. (David Herbert)