Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“For I pray that my typewriter, ever faithful, will not break even though I threw it across the hospital room six years ago.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us—dollars and all.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)