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
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
“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
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
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as… — Julia Sweeney 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
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
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
A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read! — Robert Anton Wilson 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
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
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
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside… — George Pelecanos 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
My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager. — Anna Kournikova Copy Share Image
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
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
