My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like… — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or… — Diana Quick 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
“The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.' Father… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I… — Ellen Pompeo 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've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep… — Kit Reed 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
“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
“All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
“The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for… — Catherine Crowe 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
