Blessed Virgin Mary

Famous quotes containing the words blessed, virgin and/or mary:

    Rude am I in my speech,
    And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
    Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

    Flower picking.
    Hawaiian saying no. 2710, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)