I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline combine those and you'll be pretty productive. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears… — John Fante Copy Share Image
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You do like them thin, don't you?" Pyrlig said, amused. "Now I like them meaty as well-fed heifers! Give me a nice… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If… — Timothy M. Dolan Copy Share Image
Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
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