It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but… — Rita Rudner 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
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds. — Pema Chodron 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
“Commissioner Harris at the far end stared along the mad pathway. This was his first child and it had already become a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught;… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the… — Dalai Lama 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 went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
But the blessed Bishop of Geneva taught his nuns another kind of prayer, which even the sick can make: to remain peacefully… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
Beer must be made by food companies. It makes you wander the streets at 3 am looking for things to eat. "What's… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction,… — Edna O'Brien 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
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier 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
Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns. — Jenny McCarthy 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
The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!' — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was… — George A. Romero 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
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in… — Moira Kelly Copy Share Image
A woman could be having fun A woman could be like a nun In order to survive We cannot be kind Until… — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
