“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
“Christian women also, at one time, covered their heads—not just nuns but all women when they entered churches, until quite recently.” — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'd go grocery-shopping with my parents and the old-school nuns would be there collecting money. It freaked me out. — Steve Harwell Copy Share Image
I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in… — Victor Hugo 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
When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was… — C. C. H. Pounder Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the… — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“The habits of Franciscan nuns still shrouded all but their faces, and so each of the new nun's features were emphasized, read… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“It was at that moment that something bizarrely divine happened. Something I could have almost blown off if it hadn’t happened before… — Katie Ashley Copy Share Image
“At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina...She cannot be… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. — Fulton J. Sheen 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
I remember the nuns used to swear quite a lot, so I think maybe it's picking it up from them. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
“The two sisters wouldn’t sleep with me. But it’s cool, because they were nuns, and I didn’t have my clerical costume on.” — Jarod Kintz 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
“I’m never going to run out of steam, am I? I’ll be the Energizer bunny of militant nuns.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The nuns taught us there were two ways through life - the way of nature and the way of grace. You have… — Terrence Malick 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
My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the… — Ed Henry 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
“What?" He was frowning now. "No bathing suit? Are you sure you're not a nun?" "Some nuns swim.” — April Lindner Copy Share Image
