Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. — John Lydon 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
Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Strange, don’t you think, that nuns and monks make the most sensual food and drink?” — Megan Chance 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
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
“She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“Moving the kids was not a good idea, but I sure wanted to see nuns in monster trucks plowing their way through… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in… — Chris Farley Copy Share Image
I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“I'm sympathetic to the nuns' violent impulses. I mean, if I'd given up sex to devote myself to a man who I… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Jesus, yes. I was educated by nuns. Long ago, when I was a human girl. I learned the Bible, studied the verses,… — Marcus Sakey 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
“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
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When she decided to get a job, she rejected a tempting offer from a company that had just been set up in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust through the iron gate at… — Kelsey Brickl 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
It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image