Prayed

Famous quotes containing the word prayed:

“What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“They prayed for a touch,
they cried for the sight of my face,
they entreated me
till in pity
I turned each to his own self.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“When the light was extinguished,
She covered me warm,
And she prayed to the angels
To keep me from harm—”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)