Quotes of: Mary Keyword

I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.

Dan Buettner

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

Antonia Fraser

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Dora Russell

A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.

Pope Francis

[Uncle Albert had been asked if there is a way to get down from being up in the air] Uncle Albert: There is a way. And frankly, I don't like to think of it, because you have to think of something sad. Mary Poppins: Then do get on with it, please. Unc...

Mary Poppins

Lyrics: Gonna tell Aunt Mary about Uncle John. Claims he has a-misery but he has a lot of fun. Oh, baby. Ye-e-e-es, baby. Whoo-oo-oo-oo, baby. A-havin' me some fun tonight. Yeah. Well, Long Tall Sally, she's built sweet. She got everything that Uncle...

Predator

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

[Mary] says her memories Will help those of us Newly come to our Lord’s mercy, To live in His light.

Daystar Rising: A Story of the First Christmas

We can’t spend our lives wondering, ‘what if?’ We must simply make the best of what we have. -Lady Mary Wynne-Jones

Dark Desires

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

The Birds That Never Flew

At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.

Alison Weir

There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautifu...

Margrethe II of Denmark

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

A. N. Wilson

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which m...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, r...

Laura Carmichael

I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.

Mary Roach

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly ...

Simon Schama

Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in 50 Days. It's the ultimate expression of what I love to do, which is run, and travel, and see this great country.

Dean Karnazes