Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read! — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“At St. Bernardine’s the nuns never liked me. Especially Sister Mary Bitch-and-a-Half. I think that was her biblical name.” — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
“Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's an oversimplication to say that more monks and nuns are the answer to the Joel Osteen-ification of Christianity... but it wouldn't… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'd go grocery-shopping with my parents and the old-school nuns would be there collecting money. It freaked me out. — Steve Harwell Copy Share Image
“You see, you and I are the only people here who walk quite quietly and peaceably on solid ground. The nuns walk… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was… — C. C. H. Pounder Copy Share Image
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the… — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
“Her posture was as impeccable as any debutante, making me wonder if the nuns wore corsets under those voluminous black habits. I… — Anna Lee Huber Copy Share Image
Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“It was at that moment that something bizarrely divine happened. Something I could have almost blown off if it hadn’t happened before… — Katie Ashley Copy Share Image
It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust through the iron gate at… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“When she decided to get a job, she rejected a tempting offer from a company that had just been set up in… — Paulo Coelho 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
“At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina...She cannot be… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image