Elizabeth-garden Quote by Elizabeth Garden

“There seemed something rather devotional about her pose, the still­ness, so that I thought at last, She is praying!, and made to draw my…

— Sarah Waters

“Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, And be it moon, or sun, or what you please. And if you please to…

— William Shakespeare

“I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Grandmother," Ruth admonished. "I would not have a man who could not at least understand me." "And it looks like you might have finally…

— Debbie Viguié

“Honestly, I wish I were dead. Weeping many tears, she left me and said, “Alas, how terribly we suffer, Sappho. I really leave you…

— Sappho

“probis yok mu probis?”

— Red Teapot

“. . . the story of Ruth . . .was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our…

— John Piper

“I prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, such a strange, unexpected…

— Philippa Gregory

“But this Ruth Mummert...he felt things for her he had never felt for Salome. Was that love, also? If it were, it was like…

— Jan Drexler

“Naomi enfolded Ruth in a warm embrace, before drawing back and patting her cheek. “If God spared us from the piercing shaft of every…

— Tessa Afshar

“And I give you this picture because it fairly captures our nearly fifty-year happy marriage, during which I have offered up an astonishing number…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg