Nun Quotes · Page 5

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

— Joe Orton

A woman could be having fun A woman could be like a nun In order to survive We cannot be kind Until…

— Ayumi Hamasaki

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try…

— Anonymous

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in…

— Moira Kelly

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun…

— Jemima Kirke

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the…

— Leonard Cohen

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

— Felicity Jones

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years…

— Dave Van Ronk

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move…

— Anonymous

I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right…

— Jenny McCarthy

It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car…

— Pope Francis

They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've…

— Tom Savini

I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about…

— Rick Springfield

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a…

— Richard Rodriguez

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,…

— Mary McCarthy

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

— Rachel Martin

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

“... the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and…

— Sid Brown

I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.

— Lesley Howarth

Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.

— W. Bruce Cameron

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on…

— Murasaki Shikibu

On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to…

— Anna Quindlen

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a…

— Guy de Maupassant

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum,…

— Freida Pinto

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash.…

— E. B. White

Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.

— Sylvia Poggioli

I don't think anybody should be celibate - and that goes for priests as well as nuns. I don't even like to…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

— Nora Roberts

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my…

— Shane Claiborne

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make…

— Anonymous

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but…

— Jim Goad

It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also…

— Tenzin Palmo

I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'

— Cheryl Ladd

“Are you okay?" asked Finisterre. "Annoyed," I said, giving him my hand so he could heave me to my feet. "Yes, I…

— Jasper Fforde

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

— Francis Ford Coppola

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now…

— Lamar Alexander