Nun Quotes

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

— Mary Norris

Patches are a nun's jewels.

— Marie Angelique Arnauld

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

— Ken Follett

I'd have made a terrible nun.

— Heather Graham

I was by no means a nun.

— Christine McVie

I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.

— JWoww

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

— Helen Prejean

I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.

— Cassandra Clare

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

— Joan D. Chittister

Women" he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

— Janette Rallison

Honestly, I am here to be an actress, not a social worker or a nun.

— Mallika Sherawat

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

— William Wordsworth

It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

— Shane Claiborne

If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?

— Tenzin Palmo

You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

— Richard B. Garnett

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

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

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as…

— Maria Monk

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

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

Just because you're not an actor playing Jesus or you're not a priest or a nun doesn't mean you're not meant to…

— Jonathan Roumie

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

If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

— Leigh Hunt

St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The…

— Olivier Clement

There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided…

— Doreen Virtue

You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I…

— Nancy Farmer

My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three…

— Luanne Rice

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

Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the…

— Dalai Lama

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

The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street…

— Regina Spektor

I was educated by nuns. None of them, of course, did anything resembling the actions of Lydia from The Handmaid's Tale, but…

— Ann Dowd

Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks,…

— Rajneesh

I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads…

— Harvey Milk

Alec drew his hand back with a low whistle. "The Inquisitor meant business." "Of course she did. I'm a dangerous criminal. Or…

— Cassandra Clare

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

My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this…

— Cathleen Falsani

Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will.…

— Lisa Kleypas

The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside…

— George Pelecanos