Mary Boleyn/sister%e2%80%99s Rise To Power

Famous quotes containing the words mary, boleyn, rise and/or power:

    “A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Toll on, thou passing bell;
    Ring out my doleful knell;”
    —George Boleyn (d. 1536)

    “When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children’s, and of what our children’s future will hold.”
    —Richard Louv (20th century)

    “When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible—such descent I call beauty.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)