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
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try… — Anonymous 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“... the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and… — Sid Brown 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
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
Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on… — Murasaki Shikibu 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
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
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 was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline combine those and you'll be pretty productive. — Nora Roberts 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
It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around. — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.' — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“Are you okay?" asked Finisterre. "Annoyed," I said, giving him my hand so he could heave me to my feet. "Yes, I… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor. — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat.… — Gabrielle Reece 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
