Virgin Mary Repeatedly

Famous quotes containing the words virgin, mary and/or repeatedly:

“If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

“It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)