“Christian women also, at one time, covered their heads—not just nuns but all women when they entered churches, until quite recently.” — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe. — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I remember the nuns used to swear quite a lot, so I think maybe it's picking it up from them. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
“The two sisters wouldn’t sleep with me. But it’s cool, because they were nuns, and I didn’t have my clerical costume on.” — Jarod Kintz 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. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
I was educated at a convent in Kent. It was run by Irish and French nuns. I mostly hated it but they… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?’ ‘No, Ma.’ ‘Then… — Renita D'Silva Copy Share Image
“The habits of Franciscan nuns still shrouded all but their faces, and so each of the new nun's features were emphasized, read… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence began working like real nuns, raising money for the sick at church bingos and organizing a charity… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.'… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
“I’m never going to run out of steam, am I? I’ll be the Energizer bunny of militant nuns.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Stop thinking that nuns are sweet and kind like Maria in The Sound of Music. That's just a movie. Think of the… — Viola Canales Copy Share Image
“As far as she could see, the nuns must be full of impure thoughts or else they wouldn’t be so sure everyone… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“The nuns taught us there were two ways through life - the way of nature and the way of grace. You have… — Terrence Malick Copy Share Image
A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“What?" He was frowning now. "No bathing suit? Are you sure you're not a nun?" "Some nuns swim.” — April Lindner Copy Share Image
My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the… — Ed Henry Copy Share Image
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while,… — Meg Tilly Copy Share Image
“I’m gonna admit it: When one of those nuns showered with us after wrestling practice there were more than a few boners… — Ron Burgundy Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins. — Lesley Howarth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests. — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“later we heard that the nuns from this convent took those Jewish children and gave them to the Germans, and no one… — Matthew A. Rozell Copy Share Image
“Moving the kids was not a good idea, but I sure wanted to see nuns in monster trucks plowing their way through… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed… — Bonnie Greer 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
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
