Mary Quotations

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.

From Clara Barton's tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.

I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books.

I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all those musical movies and really knew that I wanted to be a performer.

I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.

I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn't review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.

Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds.

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my child but also towards her father. There have been many influences on my life, but that thing of finally becoming a family person was the greatest.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that's right there on the dashboard.

My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.

Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.

I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.

I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.

I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.

I knew that the show was coming and they wanted me to have a co-host. And so I asked Mary Hart and she was one of the first. Before that it was Sarah Purcell then Cindy Garvey. Then Mary Hart, then Cindy Garvey again here in New York, then Anne Abernathy and then Kathy Lee, who stayed 15 years. And now Kelly has been there eight.

It's the oddest match: Mary J. Blige and Julianne Hough! But we became so close.

A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.

'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit.

Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

Like for instance, there's a point where Mary and George are asked to go to Florida with Sam Wainwright and his wife. Very subtly, (Mary) rubs her tummy -- and that night she tells him she's on the nest.

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

My God, I think about way back in the day when we were running around in Mary Janes and Doc Martens, that whole 90210-inspired look. I'm glad that's long gone.

Obviously this is big for Mary Alice. She's broken just ridiculous amounts of school records and she had her best indoor season ever.

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.

I got out of Grade school. I was in the Eighth Grade and I started playing guitar. I was into folk singing - Peter, Paul & Mary - until I heard the Beatles.

Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.

She could have been the next Mary Lou Retton. You just don't disparage Disneyland. That's a holy icon in America, and there's no way to kind of fix that.

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Shoes? I have loved them all: '60s pumps; white Courreges ankle boots; platform soles from the first time around, in the '70s; more boots - ankle, calf, and knee-high; 1980s sneakers; pin heels and wedges; Mary Janes and stilettos.

Searching Jane and Mary Doe for evidence beyond the scope of the warrant and without probable cause violated their clearly established 4th Amendment rights,

She was all over the place and swinging wildly. Mary has to be more patient when she's got someone in trouble and not get caught up in styles. We'll work on it and she'll be OK.

'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

I was inspired by Billie Holliday, and I really liked Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las because she wore tight trousers and a waistcoat on top - she looked hot.

HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius, ... But I believed everything my teachers and many in my family said.

Free thinkers and libertines who once believed that marriage was boring and humdrum now think it is the most exciting thing in the world - as long as it's Jesus marrying Mary Magdalene.

I can feel it happening. I (could) tell after I lost in the French Open to Mary Pierce. She had an unbelievable run and I played close. But close is not good enough for me. I want to get to a final.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.

I don't think I was at the level I was at the French Open or the other times I played her, but Mary played well,

I felt like I was in a dream out there. I felt totally surreal - like 'What's going on?' Mary Sue's in and is playing second then the next end she's playing lead so it was just very confusing. I still don't know how we won the game quite frankly.

Bush's program has two components, one of which is real and immediate. The other, in football, would be called a Hail Mary pass.

Her name of the game is speed. Mary puts a lot of pressure on the defense because of her speed and we will score runs when she is on the bases.

I look with awe at this huge building which, in the richness of its architecture, is an expression of faith and love for Holy Mary and for Her Son.

What Mary has achieved is nothing short of amazing. If she can come back from all her injuries and do so well, then I think why can't I?

He'll say the kids are doing so well because of all the support of other people. We know it's because of him. He really has done an incredible job, and I know how proud Mary would be because of him.

I watched her mother sobbing over her dying daughter. We walked out into the hallway and Mary said to me, 'David, I'm no lawyer and I'm no doctor. But I don't understand why they have to kill my little girl.' That's the troubling moral dilemma. Why, with family who wanted her, did Terri have to die this horrific death?

My mother knew it was grave, but she has great faith and she said God will do what he has to. My mother has blind faith in the Virgin Mary and she says that she believes that anything she asks of Mary, she receives.

Listen, the Mary we knew didn't do this.

Listen, the Mary we knew didn't do this. She was a wonderful person. We just don't understand.

Mary and I are delighted that Broadway Barks continues to be such a popular event, and we are deeply moved by the enthusiasm and support from the legions of fans and animal lovers who attend the event every year.

Mary Ann was just outstanding running the bases. Sometimes, I don't think she really understands just how important she is to our team.

Mary believes that at the center of everyone is a mystery. And the idea that you can sum up a person in two hours, to say that this one event or this one person is what made such and such happen, is ridiculous.

Mary Gallagher's extensive travel writing experience for print and radio has developed quite a following. I'm sure her audience will enjoy learning about Charlotte Harbor and the Gulf Islands.

Mary had a little sheep,With the sheep she went to sleep.The sheep turned out to be a ram,And Mary had a little lamb.

Mary is already a winner, with a free trip to Las Vegas worth a few grand.

Mary is a young woman of marriageable age when we meet her in the beginning portions of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. That means, in her culture, she would have been a young teenager, somewhere around 12 to 14 years old.

Mary is one of the funniest women I have met.

Mary Jane pitched a great game today. I was proud of our whole team effort in both games today. I knew we would be competitive if we could just minimize our mistakes and drive in some runs, and our two wins today showed that.

Mary Kate is a tremendous talent on the golf course. I knew that she was someone we could start to build a program around when we started recruiting her. She has the ability to play her way into an individual invitation to the NCAA Championships by the time she finishes her career.

Mary kept the points a lot shorter. She tried to go for too much at the Open.

Mary Lou is a beautiful person. She's from my hometown, Pittsburgh. Mary Lou I love very much. She's a very accomplished musician.

Mary Pat pitched one heck of a game. She was out there humming the ball, hitting her spots and hitting the corners. Our defense just had a little mental lapse there in the second inning. We're going to get better at it. It's still early in the season and we're not quite where we want to be yet. But, we're going to get there.

Mary Pierce has been suffering from an inflamed foot since the start of the season.

Mary Pierce right now is striking the ball as well as any girls has ever struck the ball. Whether or not that will take her through, nobody knows.

Mary really stepped it up today and pushed the race. All of the girls up front have had incredible summers and I've been impressed with their work ethic.

Mary scored some goals for us last year and we'll need her to do the same this year.

Mary Simmons here at Best Western has been so good in keeping us informed about where to go to get food, supplies, and anything else we need, ... She made flyers with all the information and phone numbers on them and put them under our doors.

Mary taught third grade when I was principal at O.C. Johnson. She was there before me, 1972-80, and after. She was a good teacher, and had concern for her students. She was well respected.

Mary was great. It was nice for the girls to get their record against such a great goalkeeper.

Mary was superb. But we missed a lot of shots that we've got to make. That's been a problem for us in the past month, so maybe we'll be able to work our way through it next year.

That catch Mary made in the last inning, that was clutch.