Blessed Virgin

Famous quotes containing the words blessed and/or virgin:

    The body prospered, teeth in the marrowed gums,
    The growing bones, the rumour of manseed
    Within the hallowed gland, blood blessed the heart....
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens, and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)