Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“When Death to either shall come—
I pray it be first to me.”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)