Mary Ann Evans

Famous quotes containing the words mary ann, mary, ann and/or evans:

    The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them.... The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Always clung to by barnacles.
    Hawaiian saying no. 2661, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

    Her fist of a face died clenched on a round pain;
    And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.
    These cloud-sopped, marble hands, this monumental
    Argument of the hewn voice, gesture and psalm,
    Storm me forever over her grave
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    I can’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
    —Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)