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)
“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)
“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)