Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“And pray to God to have mercy upon us
And I pray that I may forget
These matters that with myself I too much discuss
Too much explain”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)