Real Maria

Famous quotes containing the words real and/or maria:

    Children ... seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
    Shirley Hazzard (b. 1931)

    Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
    —Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)