Famous quotes containing the words mary ann, mary, ann and/or evans:
“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves—and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.”
—Anonymous Antebellum Confederate Women. Previously quoted by Mary Boykin Chesnut in Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981)
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Silver bells, silver bells,
It’s Christmas time in the city.”
—Ray Evans (b. 1915)